Timbale of Lamb Sweetbreads
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 timbale crust
- Truffled cream godiveau
- Lamb sweetbreads braised white
- Whole mushrooms
- Rounds of langue écarlate
- Slices of truffle
- Velouté with mushroom essence
- Quenelles of cream veal forcemeat
- Velouté with mushroom essence
Instructions
- Bake a timbale crust blind in a low-sided Charlotte mould, wider than it is high.
- Line the bottom and sides with a layer of truffled cream godiveau 2 centimetres thick and poach it at the mouth of the oven.
- Braise the lamb sweetbreads white.
- Make a ragout of half sweetbreads and half whole mushrooms, rounds of langue écarlate and slices of truffle, bound with a slightly stiff Velouté with mushroom essence.
- At the moment of serving, fill the timbale with the ragout.
- Mould quenelles of cream veal forcemeat with a teaspoon, poach them at the moment, arrange them in a crown on the garnish and coat them with Velouté.
- Set the timbale on a napkin and serve a sauceboat of Velouté with mushroom essence separately.