Consommé à la Francillon (Clear Chicken Consommé with Egg Poached in a Forcemeat Crown)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pipe a small crown of chicken forcemeat à la Crème directly onto each soup plate.
  2. Break 1 small egg into the middle of each crown.
  3. Moisten the egg with a spoonful of consommé.
  4. Put the plates in the oven to poach the forcemeat and the egg white and to make the yolk glisten.
  5. Add the necessary Consommé over the eggs and serve at once.

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