Œufs à la Mortemar (Moulded Scrambled Eggs with Truffle and Mushroom Purée)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- eggs for scrambling (5)
- raw eggs
- butter
- truffle
- tartlet crusts
- mushroom purée
- glace de viande
Instructions
- Prepare scrambled eggs with 5 eggs, keeping them very soft.
- Add 3 raw eggs beaten as for an omelette and seasoned.
- Butter small low timbale moulds and set a fine slice of truffle in the bottom of each.
- Fill the moulds with the mixture and poach in a bain-marie.
- Turn each timbale out onto a tartlet crust filled with mushroom purée and arrange them in a circle on a round dish.
- Serve separately a sauceboat of melted glace de viande lightly finished with butter.