Consommé à la Castellane (Game Consommé with Woodcock Royale)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Consommé de gibier
- woodcock fumet
- two thirds woodcock purée
- one third lentil purée
- 2 hard-boiled egg yolks
- woodcock fillets
Instructions
- Prepare a Consommé de gibier with woodcock fumet.
- For the Royale, combine two thirds woodcock purée and one third lentil purée, with 2 chopped hard-boiled egg yolks per 100 grammes of purée.
- Bind and poach this Royale according to the rule, then cut it into large rounds.
- Cut woodcock fillets into julienne.
- Garnish the consommé with the Royale rounds and, as a complement, the woodcock julienne.