Clear Colbert Soup

Mrs. A.B. Marshall's cookery book · A. B. Marshall · 1894

Source: Mrs. A.B. Marshall's cookery book
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (10)

Soup base

Clear soup

Garnish

carrots, turnips, and cucumbers cut in pea shapes ↝ Carrots, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
carrots, turnips, and cucumbers cut in pea shapes ↝ Turnips, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
carrots, turnips, and cucumbers cut in pea shapes ↝ Cucumber, raw [Other vegetables and combinations]
peas ↝ Peas, green, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a little picked and blanched tarragon ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
chervil or parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
chervil or parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]

Optional garnish

poached eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]

Seasoning for cooking garnish

boiling water with a little salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]

Instructions (9)

Prepare the garnish: cut carrots, turnips, and cucumbers into pea shapes.
Blanch all garnish vegetables (carrots, turnips, cucumbers, peas) separately.
Rinse the blanched vegetables.
Cook the blanched vegetables in boiling water with a little salt until tender.
Strain the cooked vegetables.
Add the cooked vegetables to the clear soup.
Add picked and blanched tarragon, and chervil or parsley to the soup.
If using poached eggs, prepare one for each person.
Serve the poached eggs with the soup, or separately on a napkin.

Original Text

Clear Colbert Soup.
(Consommé à la Colbert.)
Clear soup, garnished with carrots, turnips, and cucumbers cut in pea shapes, and peas; blanch all these separately, then rinse them and put them to cook till tender in boiling water with a little salt, strain them, and add them to the soup with a little picked and blanched tarragon and chervil or parsley; the soup can also be garnished with poached eggs, in which case one should be allowed to each person. If preferred, the eggs can be served on a napkin and handed with the soup.

Notes

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