Windsor Soup
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 2 small veal feet, boned
- 1.5 liters rice cream soup (crème de riz)
- 3 tablespoons infusion of turtle soup herbs
- 150 grams butter
- 3 tablespoons julienne of veal foot
- small fluted quenelles
- to taste Cayenne pepper
- standard proportions liaison (beurre manié or egg liaison)
Instructions
- Blanch the boned veal feet, refresh them in cold water, and braise them in a mirepoix (vegetable and aromatics base) with white wine until tender.
- Separately, prepare 1.5 liters of crème de riz (rice cream soup).
- Pass the cooking liquid from the veal feet through a mousseline (fine strainer or sieve) and incorporate it into the rice cream. Add 3 tablespoons of infusion of turtle soup herbs (herbes à Potage tortue).
- At the moment of service, season lightly with Cayenne pepper. Bind and finish the soup with a liaison (beurre manié or egg-based thickener) in standard proportions, then enrich with 150 grams of butter.
- Garnish each bowl with 3 tablespoons of julienne of veal foot cut into thin matchsticks, and add small fluted quenelles made from a forcemeat of two-thirds egg yolk purée and one-third chicken forcemeat.