Consommé

Arabella Boxer adapted this recipe from June Platt’s Vogue column in the 1930s and prefaces it with the remark – pertinent here – that it is best made over 2 days, adding that ‘the original recipe calls for 12 pints (6.8 l) of water, but few of us have pans that large. I use half that amount, filling up the pan from time to time with more cold water’. Boiling fowls are difficult to come by, but not impossible. Halal butchers sell them, or you may find frozen boiling chickens. I don’t