Chapter XIII · Soups · No. 606
606—Consommé Renaissance
Prepare one quart of clear chicken consommé.
For the garnish make two dariole-moulds of royale with a purée of early-season herbs thickened with velouté and whole eggs; with a small grooved spoon-cutter pick out one tablespoonful of pellets from a turnip and the red part only of a carrot. Cook these vegetables in the usual way. Cut the royale with a grooved fancy-cutter into pieces of the shape of small leaves. Put the leaves of royale into the soup-tureen with the carrot and turnip pellets, one tablespoonful of very green peas, the same quantity of French beans cut into lozenges, one tablespoonful of asparagus-heads, and twelve very small particles of very white cauliflower. Pour the boiling consommé over these garnishes, and add a pinch of chervil pluches.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 606, p. 217. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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