Optional additions (Obs. 1)
Plain White Soup variation (Obs. 2)
- Pound very fine indeed six ounces of sweet almonds.
- Add to them six ounces of the breasts of roasted chickens or partridges, and three ounces of the whitest bread which has been soaked in a little veal broth, and squeezed very dry in a cloth.
- Beat these altogether to an extremely smooth paste.
- Pour to them boiling and by degrees, two quarts of rich veal stock.
- Strain the soup through a fine hair sieve.
- Set it again over the fire.
- Add to it a pint of thick cream.
- Serve it, as soon as it is at the point of boiling.
Alternative method (if cream is scarce)
- Increase the quantity of almonds to eight or ten ounces.
- Reduce them to the finest paste.
- Pour to them a pint of boiling stock.
- Wring this stock from the almonds through a coarse cloth with very strong pressure.
- Nearly double the proportion of meat and bread.
- Well season the stock with mace and cayenne before it is added to the other ingredients.
Observation 1 (Optional additions)
- Some persons pound the yolks of four or five hard-boiled eggs with the almonds, meat, and bread for this white soup.
- French cooks beat smoothly with them an ounce or two of whole rice, previously boiled from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Observation 2 (Plain White Soup variation)
- Make a good plain white soup by adding to a couple of quarts of pale veal stock or strong well-flavoured veal broth, a thickening of arrow-root, and from half to three quarters of a pint of cream.
- Four ounces of macaroni boiled tender and well-drained may be dropped into it a minute or two before it is dished, but the thickening may then be diminished a little.
A RICHER WHITE SOUP.
Pound very fine indeed six ounces of sweet almonds, then add to them six ounces of the breasts of roasted chickens or partridges, and three ounces of the whitest bread which has been soaked in a little veal broth, and squeezed very dry in a cloth. Beat these altogether to an extremely smooth paste; then pour to them boiling and by degrees, two quarts of rich veal stock; strain the soup through a fine hair sieve, set it again over the fire, add to it a pint of thick cream, and serve it, as soon as it is at the point of boiling. When cream is very scarce, or not easily to be procured, this soup may be thickened sufficiently without it, by increasing the quantity of almonds to eight or ten ounces, and pouring to them, after they have been reduced to the finest paste, a pint of boiling stock, which must be again wrung from them through a coarse cloth with very strong pressure: the proportion of meat and bread also should then be nearly doubled. The stock should be well seasoned with mace and cayenne before it is added to the other ingredients.
Almonds, 6 oz.; breasts of chickens or partridges, 6 oz.; soaked bread, 3 oz.; veal stock, 2 quarts; cream, 1 pint.
Obs. 1.—Some persons pound the yolks of four or five hard-boiled eggs with the almonds, meat, and bread for this white soup; French cooks beat smoothly with them an ounce or two of whole rice, previously boiled from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Obs. 2.—A good plain white soup maybe made simply by adding to a couple of quarts of pale veal stock or strong well-flavoured veal broth, a thickening of arrow-root, and from half to three quarters of a pint of cream. Four ounces of macaroni boiled tender and well-drained may be dropped into it a minute or two before it is dished, but the thickening may then be diminished a little.