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Consommé Douglas

Chef Juliette

Consommé Douglas

A brilliant, highly seasoned consommé carrying neat penny rounds of cooled braised sweetbread and artichoke bottom, with green asparagus tips: refinement built on clarity, precise cutting, and a broth served fiercely hot.

Consommé à l’Écossaise

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Écossaise

Clear mutton broth, tender barley, green-bean lozenges, and exact dice of poached breast: a quiet lesson in skimming, degreasing, and restraint, scaled from the classical soup tureen to one home stockpot.

Consommé Favorite

Chef Juliette

Consommé Favorite

Consommé Favorite sets jewel-dark violet-potato pellets, artichoke, and mushroom julienne in clear chicken broth, with tapioca dissolved into a barely perceptible silkiness. Precision, not abundance, gives this first course its grace.

Consommé à la Fermière

Chef Juliette

Consommé à la Fermière

Consommé à la Fermière proves that clarity is active cooking: finely cut garden vegetables softened in butter, barely simmered in pale consommé, diligently degreased, and finished with crisp slices of flute.

Consommé Florentine

Chef Juliette

Consommé Florentine

Crystal-clear chicken consommé carries forty-eight tiny quenelles of tongue, chicken, and spinach, the green ones doubled by design, with peas and chervil pluches keeping Florentine true to its name.

Consommé Gauloise

Chef Juliette

Consommé Gauloise

Consommé Gauloise makes clarity the luxury: amber chicken broth touched with tapioca, rose-pink ham royale lozenges, and the tender cock garnish that gives this composed soup its name.

Consommé George Sand

Chef Juliette

Consommé George Sand

A limpid, fish-scented consommé with crayfish-tinted whiting quenelles and morels, while carp milt on crisp flute rounds is passed apart: clarity, contrast, and formal service made workable at home.

Consommé Germaine

Chef Juliette

Consommé Germaine

Clear chicken consommé poured over emerald pea royale and tender chicken-cream pastilles, a study in contrast that brings the disciplined grand-kitchen soup to one home table.

Consommé Girondine

Chef Juliette

Consommé Girondine

Clear beef consommé carries pale ham royale lozenges and butter-bright carrot in perfect suspension, a disciplined first course proving that clarity, seasoning, and precise knife work are the whole dish.

Consommé Grimaldi

Chef Juliette

Consommé Grimaldi

A tomato-tinted consommé kept perfectly limpid through careful clarification, then finished with buttery celery julienne and neat dice of savoury royale, an exacting first course made manageable at home.

Consommé Imperiale

Chef Juliette

Consommé Imperiale

A crystal-clear chicken consommé carrying tender fowl mousseline rounds, cocks’ combs, sliced kidneys, green peas, and the faintest tapioca liaison, composed for celebration yet entirely manageable at home.

Consommé à l’Indienne

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Indienne

A clear, curry-scented consommé poured over cool dice of coconut-milk royale, with Riz à l’Indienne (No. 2254) passed separately: a lesson in contrast, clarity, and disciplined service for the home table.

Consommé à l’Infante

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Infante

A limpid chicken consommé with the faint silk of tapioca, bright capsicum threads in the tureen, and crisp foie-gras profiterolles passed apart so every shell stays crisp.

Consommé Jacqueline

Chef Juliette

Consommé Jacqueline

Consommé Jacqueline teaches the discipline of clarity: jewel-bright chicken broth carrying tender carrot ovals, cream royale pastilles, peas, asparagus, and rice, every garnish distinct and every spoonful clean.

Consommé Julienne

Chef Juliette

Consommé Julienne

A clear bowl that teaches precision: six vegetables cut into matching julienne, softened in butter without color, then suspended with peas, sorrel, lettuce, and chervil in a white consommé of spotless clarity.

Consommé Lorette

Chef Juliette

Consommé Lorette

Crystal-clear chicken consommé gathers buttered celery, scarlet pimento, and freshly poached cocks' kidneys, while crisp cheese-enriched potato crescents arrive separately, preserving the contrast that makes Consommé Lorette worth the ceremony.

Consommé Macdonald

Chef Juliette

Consommé Macdonald

Brilliant beef consommé carries tender brain royale roundels, glazed cucumber dice, and spinach-chicken ravioles, each garnish cooked on its own so the broth reaches the table clear as amber.

Consommé Marguerite

Chef Juliette

Consommé Marguerite

A lesson in precision served by the spoonful: tender chicken-cream marguerites, yellow yolk hearts, and green asparagus suspended in consommé so clear every careful cut remains visible.

Consommé Marquise

Chef Juliette

Consommé Marquise

A crystal-clear celery consommé carrying tiny filbert chicken quenelles and tender pale rounds of calf's pith, each poached apart so the broth stays brilliant and every garnish keeps its character.

Consommé Mercédès

Chef Juliette

Consommé Mercédès

Consommé Mercédès teaches the discipline of clarity: pimento-scented chicken broth, a generous measure of sherry added away from heat, and a precise garnish of red pepper and tender cocks' combs.

Consommé Messaline

Chef Juliette

Consommé Messaline

Consommé Messaline turns clarification into flavor: limpid chicken broth carries concentrated tomato, while poached cocks’ combs, peeled red pepper julienne, and separate grains of rice make a lavish, disciplined first course.

Consommé Metternich

Chef Juliette

Consommé Metternich

Consommé Metternich turns clarity into ceremony: pheasant-scented game broth around tender artichoke and game-sauce royale, with just enough roast pheasant julienne to announce the bird without clouding the bowl.

Consommé à la Milanaise

Chef Juliette

Consommé à la Milanaise

Crystal-clear chicken consommé meets its crisp counterpoint: macaroni bound with dense Béchamel, yolk, and cheese, crumbed into small quoits and fried gold at the last minute, then served apart so every bite keeps its crust.

Consommé Mireille

Chef Juliette

Consommé Mireille

Consommé Mireille makes clarity visible: a limpid chicken broth carrying saffron-gold pilaff and vivid tomato chicken medallions, with every garnish precise enough to leave the consommé bright.

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