This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Roll into small sausage-form six ounces of chicken forcemeat, finished with crayfish butter. Poach the sausages, cut them into thin roundels, and put them into the soup-tureen, with one dessertspoonful of black truffle, cut in julienne.
Pour over this garnish two quarts of boiling consomme, thickened with three tablespoonfuls of poached tapioca.
 
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