Crème Judic (Cream of Chicken and Lettuce Soup)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 8 décilitres Crème de volaille
- 8 décilitres Crème de laitues à la Choisy
- cream
- 24 small rounds of lettuce leaf
- chicken forcemeat with cream
- truffle
- 20 cock's kidneys
Instructions
- Bring the Crème de volaille and the Crème de laitues à la Choisy to point and combine them.
- Heat, and cream at the moment of serving.
- Cut 24 small rounds of lettuce leaf the size of a sou.
- Pipe each with chicken forcemeat with cream in a spiral, or with a point of forcemeat through a fluted tube and a small point of truffle in the centre.
- Poach these rounds at the moment.
- Garnish the soup with the rounds and with 20 freshly cooked cock's kidneys, the smallest possible.