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Chicken broth comes in a two-handled bouillon cup that, like many of the floral-patterned plates and bowls at Anton’s, looks as if it came from Grandma’s china hutch.

If there is any reason to suspect an accumulation of mucus in the stomach, a small bouillon cup of very hot water, just as hot as it can be borne, in which a pinch of salt and a pinch of bi-carbonate of soda have been dissolved will prove an excellent aperitive for the day.

Luckily—for Elinor—Maggie lost her nerve soon enough to drop her bouillon cup to the floor, and though the crash of china and the splash of liquid on the polished floor startled all at the table, Elinor escaped a drenching.

“She broke a beautiful 19th-century transferware bouillon cup,” he said.

Place one yolk in each Bouillon cup and pour on hot consommé.