Consommé Mosaïque (Petite Marmite Consommé with Mosaic-Decorated Chicken Pain)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Consommé de la Petite Marmite
- Pain of chicken
- Cooked chicken purée
- Royales of various tints
Instructions
- Prepare a Consommé de la Petite Marmite.
- Poach a pain of chicken kept a little firm, cool it, and cut it as desired into squares, rectangles, rounds, ovals and so on.
- Mask one surface of each piece with a light coat of cooked chicken purée.
- Form the mosaic on that surface with minute squares of royales of various tints, barely 6 millimetres to the side, setting the tints against one another.
- Garnish the Consommé with the decorated pieces.