Consommé à l’Orge perlé (Consommé with Pearl Barley)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Allow 45 grammes of barley per litre of Consommé.
  2. Wash the barley in tepid water, blanch it and drain it.
  3. Moisten it with ordinary white Consommé and add a half-branch of celery.
  4. Bring it to the boil and cook it for 2 hours and a half.
  5. At the moment of serving, drain the barley carefully and put it into the clarified Consommé.

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