Timbale of Duckling Mirabeau
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Olives
- Poultry forcemeat
- Fine duckling forcemeat
- Aiguillettes of roast duckling
- Mushrooms
- Truffles
- Sauce Salmis
- Butter for the mould
- Sauce Salmis
Instructions
- Stone as many olives as the size of the mould requires, fill them with poultry forcemeat, poach them, drain them and let them cool.
- Butter a charlotte mould generously and line it with the stuffed olives, set in concentric rows in the bottom and one above another up the walls.
- Mask the bottom and walls with a fairly thick layer of fine duckling forcemeat.
- Fill the inside with aiguillettes of roast duckling kept very rare, mushrooms and truffles, bound with a fairly stiff cold sauce Salmis.
- Cover with a layer of the same forcemeat and poach the timbale in a bain-marie.
- Out of the bath, let it rest long enough for the inside to settle.
- Unmould at the moment of serving and surround with a ribbon of sauce Salmis.