Œufs à la Boitelle (Moulded Eggs with Mushrooms)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- eggs
- mushrooms
- butter for sautéing and for the moulds
- oval toasts fried in butter
- 2 spoonfuls mushroom essence
- 50 grammes butter
- a few drops of lemon juice
Instructions
- Sauté slices of raw mushroom in butter.
- Butter oval rice-cake moulds well and line them with the mushroom slices.
- Break an egg into each mould and poach.
- Turn out onto oval toasts fried in butter.
- Reduce 2 spoonfuls of mushroom essence by half, mount it with 50 grammes of butter and finish with a few drops of lemon juice.
- Sauce the eggs with this essence.