Endives à l'Ardennaise (Braised Endives with Bacon and Ham)

Ingredients

• endives
• butter
• water and butter
• 125 grammes breast bacon
• 100 grammes lean ham
• butter

Instructions

1. Trim the endives and set them in a generously buttered sautoir with water and butter, in the proportions given above but omitting the lemon.
2. At half-cooking, add the blanched diced breast bacon and the chopped lean ham.
3. Complete the cooking.
4. Dress in a timbale and finish the cooking liquor with a piece of butter the size of a walnut.