Oxtail Soup
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 3 oxtails
- 3/4 funt root vegetables
- 1 herb bundle
- 1 slice lemon
- 1/2 stakan Madeira or Malaga
- 5-6 funt beef for red bouillon
- 1 funt beef for the raft
- 1 stakan flour
- 1 tbsp butter
- 2 carrot and celeriac (garnish)
- chicken quenelle
- 1/2 funt sweetbreads (veal)
- 12-20 cockscombs
- 15 champignons
- 3/4 funt sorrel
- 1/2 stakan tomatoes
Instructions
- Soak, blanch and cook the oxtails several hours in a bony broth with Madeira and roots.
- Make and clarify a red bouillon; combine with the tail broth and thicken.
- Glaze turned carrot and celeriac; prepare quenelle, sweetbreads, cockscombs, mushrooms, sorrel and tomatoes.
- Combine all garnishes in the broth, boil, salt, and serve (for 12).