Consommé à l’Orge perlé (Consommé with Pearl Barley)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 45 grammes pearl barley
- Ordinary white Consommé
- Half a branch of celery (a figure before it is destroyed in the scan)
- Clarified Consommé
Instructions
- Allow 45 grammes of barley per litre of Consommé.
- Wash the barley in tepid water, blanch it and drain it.
- Moisten it with ordinary white Consommé and add a half-branch of celery.
- Bring it to the boil and cook it for 2 hours and a half.
- At the moment of serving, drain the barley carefully and put it into the clarified Consommé.