Choose simple starters such as chilled fruit juice, melon, clear soup, salads with a little olive oil dressing, or seafood dishes without sauces. BNC
Thus to make a wonderful stock base for poaching or a clear soup, water would be highly flavoured with lemon or lime juice, plus lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf. BNC
The inevitable clear soup followed (pot au feu this time); the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese, and the dean's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel's initial peevishness began to wear off. BNC