Œufs à la Boitelle (Moulded Eggs with Mushrooms)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Sauté slices of raw mushroom in butter.
  2. Butter oval rice-cake moulds well and line them with the mushroom slices.
  3. Break an egg into each mould and poach.
  4. Turn out onto oval toasts fried in butter.
  5. Reduce 2 spoonfuls of mushroom essence by half, mount it with 50 grammes of butter and finish with a few drops of lemon juice.
  6. Sauce the eggs with this essence.

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