Hot Pate of Spring Chicken or Young Turkey
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 3 spring chicken or young turkey
- 1/4 funt butter
- 1/2 funt lard (shpik)
- 1/2 lemon
- nutmeg
- 1 bay leaf
- 3-4 cloves
- 1 onion
- 50 crayfish
- 2 lot dry broth (bulon)
- 2 spoon crayfish butter
- 1 French roll
- 2 eggs
- 1 spoon flour
- 1 batch dough
Instructions
- Braise the jointed birds with butter, lard, lemon, aromatics; remove and strain the sauce.
- Make crayfish butter from 50 crayfish; pound a forcemeat of leg meat, tails, crayfish butter, soaked roll, eggs and greens.
- Layer birds, forcemeat and crayfish tails on a dish, cover with dough per No. 1403, glaze, and bake.
- Finish the strained broth with dry broth, roux and marrow; serve as sauce.