Tête de veau à la Tertillière (Calf's Head with Tongue, Truffles and Mushrooms in Sauce Madère)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Put the 10 pieces of calf's head prepared as for Tête de veau à la Financière in a sautoir with the scarlet tongue, the truffles and the cooked mushrooms, all cut into a fairly thick, short julienne.
  2. Add the sauce Madère and let the whole simmer for half an hour.
  3. At the moment of serving, finish with a spoonful of lemon zest cut in fine julienne and well blanched.
  4. Dish in a timbale and surround with the 10 hot halves of hard-boiled egg.

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