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Consommé Rothschild

Chef Juliette

Consommé Rothschild

Consommé Rothschild makes clarity luxurious: pheasant-fumet broth scented at the last moment with reduced Sauterne, then poured over tender pheasant-and-chestnut royale roundels and a fine julienne of roast pheasant.

Consommé Saint Hubert

Chef Juliette

Consommé Saint Hubert

Clear venison consommé, Marsala added at the last breath, cross-cut royale of venison, lentil, and game Espagnole, with hare julienne beneath: a hunter's first course that makes precision feel generous.

Potage Sarah Bernhardt

Chef Juliette

Potage Sarah Bernhardt

A clear tapioca consommé carrying coral-flecked chicken quenelles, tender marrow rounds, black truffle, and asparagus tips: a Parisian celebration soup whose luxury depends on gentle poaching, not display.

Consommé Sévigné

Chef Juliette

Consommé Sévigné

Consommé Sévigné turns discipline into delicacy: crystal-clear chicken broth, tiny chicken quenelles, yielding braised lettuce, peas, and chervil, assembled in the tureen for a spring-bright first course.

Consommé Souveraine

Chef Juliette

Consommé Souveraine

Consommé Souveraine turns clarity into ceremony: lucid chicken broth, pale quenelles enclosing a cold brunoise heart, green peas, and chervil, all balanced on the gentlest eight-minute poach.

Turtle Soup

Chef Juliette

Turtle Soup

Potage de tortue draws depth from a barely trembling broth, then lifts it with turtle herbs and Madeira: a grand London soup translated honestly for one French home kitchen.

Consommé Tosca

Chef Juliette

Consommé Tosca

Amber chicken consommé gains the faintest silk from tapioca, then carries buttered carrot julienne and foie gras and truffle quenelles, while crisp pistachio-chicken profiterolles arrive hot on their own plate.

Consommé Vert Pré

Chef Juliette

Consommé Vert Pré

Consommé Vert Pré keeps its promise through separation: translucent tapioca in brilliant clear broth, spring vegetables cooked one by one, and tender sorrel and lettuce roundels meeting only in the warmed tureen.

Consommé Villeneuve

Chef Juliette

Consommé Villeneuve

A clear chicken consommé carrying three precise garnishes: tongue-stuffed lettuce, plain royale pastilles, and tender lozenges of forcemeat-coated crêpe, each cooked separately so the broth reaches the table brilliant.

Consommé à l’Essence de Cailles

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Essence de Cailles

Roast quail gives its deepest flavor to an amber consommé, pounded into a patient clarification raft at the book’s uncompromising ratio, then filtered to a brilliance fit for the home table.

Consommé à l’Essence de Céleri

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Essence de Céleri

Consommé à l’Essence de Céleri teaches the hardest kind of seasoning: build a perfectly clear broth, then let the celery announce itself without ever taking over the bowl.

Consommé à l’Essence de Morilles

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Essence de Morilles

Pounded morels perfume the clarification itself, leaving a limpid amber consommé with woodland depth in every spoonful. The raft does the work, and one patient simmer makes the old canon practical at home.

Consommé à l’Essence de Truffle

Chef Juliette

Consommé à l’Essence de Truffle

A consommé clear enough to catch the light, yet deeply scented with fresh truffle: the clarification removes every cloud while the pounded trimmings give the broth its quiet, earthy authority.

Consommé au Fumet de Perdreau

Chef Juliette

Consommé au Fumet de Perdreau

Roast partridge gives this crystal-clear consommé its autumn depth, one bird to each quart, while a patient clarification carries the fumet into the broth without clouding its amber brilliance.

Consommé aux Paillettes d’Or

Chef Juliette

Consommé aux Paillettes d’Or

Mirror-clear chicken consommé, fragrant with liqueur brandy and alive with real gold flecks, proves that the plainest bowl can carry ceremony when its foundation is exact.

Consommé aux Piments Doux

Chef Juliette

Consommé aux Piments Doux

Sweet capsicum enters the clarification, not the finished bowl, leaving this consommé brilliantly clear, copper-amber, and quietly fragrant. The lesson is restraint: perfume the broth without letting the pepper cloud it.

Consommé à la Madrilène

Chef Juliette

Consommé à la Madrilène

Raw tomato and red capsicum join the clarification, not the bowl, leaving this chilled consommé rose-amber, deeply savory, and perfectly clear: a lesson in patient heat and colder service.

Consommé à la Portugaise

Chef Juliette

Consommé à la Portugaise

Clarity is the lesson: ripe tomato deepens a finished consommé under the gentlest covered heat, then muslin and patience leave a brilliant, cayenne-touched broth to serve very cold.

Consommés aux Vins

Chef Juliette

Consommés aux Vins

Consommés aux vins teach restraint: one excellent cold chicken consommé, one chosen wine, and the exact classical ratio that lets the bottle perfume the broth without overwhelming its clarity.

Gelee aux Pommes d’Amour

Chef Juliette

Gelee aux Pommes d’Amour

A jewel-clear Provençal tomato consommé, naturally set to a tender wobble around peeled pommes d’amour, served cold in shallow cups: clarification, concentration, and patience made generous at the table.

Gelee de Volaille à la Napolitaine

Chef Juliette

Gelee de Volaille à la Napolitaine

A clear, tender chicken jelly carrying the tomato-bright depth of Consommé Portugaise and the round perfume of port or old Marsala, made ahead and unmoulded cold for a generous first course.

Purée de Carottes, otherwise Crécy

Chef Juliette

Purée de Carottes, otherwise Crécy

Purée de Carottes, otherwise Crécy, turns carrots, butter, rice, and white consommé into a silken soup. The lesson is simple and absolute: blend for smoothness, then sieve for finesse.

Purée de Carottes au Tapioca, otherwise Velours

Chef Juliette

Purée de Carottes au Tapioca, otherwise Velours

Purée Crécy meets tender tapioca poached in white consommé, then butter brings the two together. Velours earns its name from the spoon: glossy, softly pearled, and entirely itself.

Purée de Céleri-rave

Chef Juliette

Purée de Céleri-rave

Purée de Céleri-rave turns knobby celeriac into an ivory, butter-glossed soup, its bitterness blanched away, its body supplied by potato, and its sweetness clarified by a patient half-hour of skimming.

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