This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.
Total Time
20 minutes
Servings
3–4
4 oz (115 g) breadcrumbs
Stock
3.5 oz (100 g) butter
2 eggs
Chopped parsley
Salt
Nutmeg
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
Soak the breadcrumbs in a little stock.
Combine the butter, eggs, soaked breadcrumbs, a little chopped parsley, salt, and a pinch of nutmeg.
Reduce this, then add flour and Parmesan cheese.
Form this mixture into little quenelles, and boil them in stock for a few minutes.
Put them into a tureen and pour a good clear soup over them.