This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Clear soup with spring vegetables, peas, asparagus-heads and shred lettuce.
Springsoup; clear with early summer vegetables, especially peas and asparagus-heads.
Printaniere with royale custards in it besides the vegetables.
Clear soup with royale custards, made of 1/2 pint purde of white or ions in 10 yolks and 2 eggs and spoonful of cream and seasonings; also, peas and cut string beans.
Chicken broth with stewed Jerusalem artichokes in slices; also some rice cooked separately in distinct grains and mixed in.
Clear, strong game broth, with stewed celery in small squares, game forcemeat quenelles, macaroni in inch lengths, and shapes of fried bread.
Clear soup with brown-fried cubes of turnip.
Clear soup with small balls of chicken meat finely pounded, mixed with cream, yolks, finely minced parsley, seasonings, poached separately.
Clear soup with light balls of choux paste in the plates. (See choux). These are boiled in broth with the steam shut in if to be served immediately, for they rise and then fall; but, if not, are baked in a very slack oven till dry, when they remain light. The paste for these has a proportion of grated cheese mixed in.
Pron. Hevier. Clear soup with shred lettuce or cabbage and other vegetables, and pea-shaped drops of paste made by dripping egg-batter through a colander into it while boiling.
Clear brandy-colored soup with vari-colored vegetables, which are cut into shreds, like straws, and half cooked in butter and sugar before being added to it.
Savarin says that he taught a New York restaurant-keeper named Julien how to change his ordinary pot-au-feu into this artistic soup, and that it had a great run as Julien's soup.
Clear brown soup with vari-colored vegetables cut in very small squares, and green peas.
Peasant's soup. Clear broth with various vegetables cut small, and shred lettuce.
Gardener's soup, perhaps flowery soup. Clear soup with varicolored vegetables stamped in small fancy shapes. There are jardiniere cutters to be bought which perform this operation speedily enough.
Clear soup, like paysanne, with shred lettuce and peas.
Clear chicken broth having royale custards consisting of pounded chicken meat and eggs, and green peas and small cut green string beans in the plates.
Clear soup with royale custards made of almond puree, or milk mixed with eggs, and boiled rice in the plates.
Clear soup with cubes of carrots, turnips and celery.
Clear brown soup with,macaroni boiled separately, cut in rings and added to the consomme when served - not to dull its clearness by being stirred about in it.
Clear soup with small thin triangles of bread, fried in butter, in the plates.
Clear soup, brandy-color, containing small round lozenge-shapes of vegetables, lettuce, sorrel, chervil leaves, asparagus points, little sugar with the seasonings, and small shapes of bread toasted in the oven.
Clear soup with a little rice in large distinct grains, washed after cooking, then put in the soup.
Clear soup with very green peas - June peas or French. (Seepotages and soups).
 
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