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Consomme Rachel

(France.) This soup was created for the great actress who, like most people of genius, was a bonne fourchette. Mix 1 cup of finely chopped and cooked chicken with sufficient white stock to make a paste. Season it and cook, like a custard, in a pan of water. Then cut in squares. Heat 1 quart of consomme with a thickening of flour and butter, 1 ounce of each, and the yolk of an egg and 1/2 cup of cream. Add salt, pepper, the chicken custard, and 2 tablespoonfuls of cooked green peas.

POTAGE REUNION. (invented for a banquet of a peace congress.). Boil 1 pound of cooked salmon in 2 quarts of white stock for 1/2 hour. Add salt and pepper and a blending of 1 cup of milk, some flour, butter, and yolk of an egg. Cook carefully ten minutes longer; add 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley, a little nutmeg and salt. Press through a sieve, add 2 dozen small cooked oysters, and serve at once.