My recipe search lead me to settle on this one; Velouté à la du Barry (Cauliflower Cream Soup) mostly BECAUSE the recipe included this fact: Invented in the eighteenth century for Jeanne du Barry, King Louis XV of France’s last maîtresse en titre (his official mistress), this cauliflower cream soup is now a French classic.
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