Consommé à la Rothschild (Game Consommé with Pheasant Fumet and Sauterne)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Game Consommé with pheasant fumet
- 1 half-décilitre reduced Sauterne wine
- Pheasant purée
- Chestnut purée
- Pheasant salmis sauce
- Ortolan fillets
- Very black truffle
Instructions
- Prepare a game Consommé with pheasant fumet.
- Add 1 half-décilitre of reduced Sauterne wine for each litre of Consommé.
- Make a royale of equal parts pheasant purée, chestnut purée and pheasant salmis sauce, and cut it into medium fluted rounds.
- Cut the ortolan fillets into julienne, and the truffle into a fine julienne.
- Garnish the Consommé with the royale and the two juliennes.