Vol-au-Vent de Cervelle (Vol-au-Vent of Calf's Brains)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 4 decilitres sauce Allemande
- 500 grammes brain
- 12 quenelles of ordinary godiveau
- a little mushroom cooking liquor
- 125 grammes very small cooked mushrooms
- 15 slices of truffle
- 1 vol-au-vent crust
Instructions
- Swell the quenelles of ordinary godiveau with a little mushroom cooking liquor.
- Combine in the sauce Allemande the escaloped poached brain, the quenelles, the very small cooked mushrooms and the slices of truffle.
- Pour into a vol-au-vent crust.
- Decorate the top with a crown of slices of truffle and dress on a napkin.