Soups thickened with a Liaison of Cream and Yolk of Egg
In thickening soups with a liaison of cream (or milk) and yolk of egg, the eggs must first be well beaten, then the cream should be added to them and thoroughly mixed. When this is done take a tea-cup of hot stock and mix it slowly with the liaison. Strain it all through a fine sieve or muslin, and add gradually to the soup, which must on no account be allowed to boil after the liaison is added, although it should be stirred over a gentle fire until it thickens.
In thickening soup with eggs only, beat the required number of eggs, add a little warm stock to them. Strain, and add gradually to the soup.
1 quart stock
4 or 5 small slices of brown bread
¹⁄₂ head of celery
1 carrot
4 table-spoons glaze
4 yolks of eggs
1 gill sour cream
Toast the brown bread. Add it with the sliced celery and carrot to a rich stock from which all the fat has not been removed. Bring to a boil. Simmer for an hour. Add four table-spoons glaze. Put all through a sieve. Heat gently. Add the liaison of eggs and cream. Serve with croûtons made of brown bread.
This soup can be made with German black bread.
1 quart chicken stock
1 cup cooked cauliflower
2 yolks of eggs
¹⁄₂ pint cream
1 cup button mushrooms
Put the cauliflower through a fine sieve. Add it to the boiling stock. Season. Add the liaison of cream and egg.
Place the cooked mushrooms at the bottom of a soup tureen. Pour the soup over them.
¹⁄₄ lb. Carolina rice
1 quart chicken stock
1 gill cream
¹⁄₂ oz. Parmesan
2 yolks of eggs
Wash the rice. Boil it for ten minutes in water. Drain. Add to the stock. Simmer until the rice is tender. Put through a fine sieve. Add to the stock. Mix in the cheese. Add the liaison of cream and eggs.
Quenelles of chicken can be added if desired, or rice balls.
1 cucumber
1¹⁄₂ pints white stock
1 oz. butter
1 onion
Small handful of sorrel
A little chervil
1 gill of cream
2 eggs
Cut the cucumber into thin slices. Sprinkle salt over them. Leave them for an hour. Drain. Put them in a sauce-pan with the butter, the onion, chervil and sorrel finely minced. Add the stock. Season. Simmer for twenty minutes. Add the liaison of cream and eggs and serve.
2 carrots
2 turnips
1 cucumber
1 quart chicken or veal broth
Yolks of 3 eggs
1 gill of cream
Tea-spoonful butter
1 gill cooked French beans
1 gill cooked young peas
Cut the carrots, turnips and cucumber into olive-shaped pieces. Blanch for three minutes in boiling water. Add to the stock, and simmer until the vegetables are tender. Take off the fire. Season. Add the yolks and cream and butter (in small pieces). Stir over the fire until the soup thickens.
Put the freshly cooked peas and beans (cut into dice) into the soup tureen. Pour the soup over them.
1 quart veal stock
1 handful spinach and sorrel
¹⁄₂ pint cream
3 yolks of eggs
Boil the chopped spinach and sorrel in the stock until tender. Season. Just before serving add the liaison of eggs and cream. Stir continually until it thickens. Serve with croûtons.
1 quart veal stock
1 chicken
3 yolks of eggs
1 pint cream or milk
2 table-spoons chopped parsley
Cut the chicken into joints. Scald and skin them. Add them to the stock. Season. Bring to the boil. Simmer gently for an hour. Skim from time to time. Strain. Add the liaison of egg and cream, and the parsley.
5 ozs. macaroni
2 ozs. butter
1 quart white stock
¹⁄₂ pint cream or milk
3 yolks of eggs
1 oz. grated Parmesan
Cut the macaroni in boiling water, adding butter, salt and pepper. Boil for half-an-hour. Drain. Cut in half-inch lengths.
Heat the white stock. Add the macaroni to it. Simmer another half-hour. Add liaison of eggs and cream (or milk) and the grated cheese.
¹⁄₂ lb. macaroni
A little more than 1 quart chicken stock
About 30 forcemeat balls
4 yolks of eggs
1 gill of cream
Boil the macaroni for ten minutes in cold water. Drain it. Cut it in finger-lengths. Cook it again for fifteen minutes in a little clear chicken stock. In a hot dish lay first a layer of macaroni, then one of small chicken forcemeat balls, then another layer of macaroni, etc.
Heat a quart of clear chicken stock to boiling point. Add a liaison of the yolks of four eggs and a gill of cream. Strain. Serve in a soup tureen with the dish of macaroni and forcemeat balls.
2 kidneys
2 small onions
¹⁄₄ lb. mushrooms
1 dozen small olives
3 gherkins
1 quart strong stock
Yolks of two eggs
Melt the butter and fry the kidneys and onions (finely cut up) in it very gently for five minutes. Cook the mushrooms separately. Put the kidneys, onions, mushrooms, olives and gherkins (finely sliced) in a hot soup tureen. Pour over them a quart of rich, dark, well-seasoned brown stock, which has been thickened with the yolks of two eggs.
1 quart of veal or beef stock
¹⁄₂ a tea-cup of rice
2 yolks of eggs
1 table-spoon cream
Boil the rice and stock together until the rice is tender. Press through a sieve. Season. Add the yolks and cream. Serve with croûtons.
3 potatoes
1 handful chopped water-cress
1 quart stock (or water)
2 yolks of eggs
1 table-spoon cream
1 oz. butter
1 tea-spoon white roux
Peel and wash the potatoes. Cook them in a little stock. When tender mash them and put through a sieve. Add them to the rest of the stock. Put back on the fire. Heat gently. Add a tea-spoonful of white roux. Add the butter in small pieces.
Make a liaison of the eggs and cream. Stir into the soup. Add the water-cress uncooked. Serve at once, before the water-cress becomes limp.
The water in which a fowl has been boiled
The carcase and bones of the fowl
1 pint milk or cream
1 table-spoon chopped onion
2 table-spoons ” celery
Yolks of two eggs
1 gill chopped and cooked carrot and green peas
Add the bones and carcase of the fowl, the onion, celery and seasoning to the water in which a fowl has been boiled. Simmer till reduced to one quart. Strain and thicken with a white roux of butter and flour. Add the liaison of cream (or milk) and eggs.
Put the cooked carrot and peas in the soup tureen, and pour the soup over them.
2 lbs. knuckle of veal
1 quart water
1 onion
Half pint of milk or cream
2 yolks of eggs
1 table-spoon butter
1 ” flour
Wipe the veal and cut it into small pieces. Cover with cold water and heat slowly, skimming constantly. Season with salt, three or four pepper-corns, and a chopped onion. Simmer for three hours until reduced by half. Strain. Allow it to cool. Remove the fat. Put in the stew-pan again, and when boiling thicken with white roux made of table-spoon butter and a level table-spoon of flour. Add a half pint of milk and eggs. Season again. Serve with fried bread.