Chapter XIII · Soups · No. 623
623—Consommé aux Paillettes d’Or
Take a very superior chicken consommé; add thereto, per quart, a glass of excellent liqueur brandy, and, in the same proportion, one gold-leaf cut into small spangles.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 623, p. 224. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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