Œufs à la Mortemar (Moulded Scrambled Eggs with Truffle and Mushroom Purée)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Prepare scrambled eggs with 5 eggs, keeping them very soft.
  2. Add 3 raw eggs beaten as for an omelette and seasoned.
  3. Butter small low timbale moulds and set a fine slice of truffle in the bottom of each.
  4. Fill the moulds with the mixture and poach in a bain-marie.
  5. Turn each timbale out onto a tartlet crust filled with mushroom purée and arrange them in a circle on a round dish.
  6. Serve separately a sauceboat of melted glace de viande lightly finished with butter.

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