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Ham Sauce
A claret and demi-glace sauce with diced cooked ham, shallots, parsley and chives.
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Step 1
Preheat a conventional oven to 400°F. Put the ten quarts cold water in a very large stockpot with ample headroom and begin heating. Have a butcher clean and cut the two fresh raw white calf feet into small pieces. Put them in a roasting pan with the half pound raw ham cut into pieces, one pound veal bones, two carrots, two onions and two leeks, all sliced, the three branches parsley root and one celery branch, sliced. Add the ten cloves, four bay leaves, twenty whole allspice berries, two tablespoons whole black peppercorns, one teaspoon thyme and one and a half tablespoons salt. Spread about four tablespoons rendered pork lard over the vegetables and roast until the bones, meat and vegetables are golden, without burning.
Step 2
Transfer the complete roasted mixture to the stockpot and add the one pint canned tomatoes. Bring slowly to a boil and cook for thirty minutes. Cover, lower the heat and keep at a gentle simmer until the liquid has reduced by half. Before proceeding, check that the meat on the feet and the ham have each reached at least 70°C for two minutes, probing away from bone.
Step 3
In a second very large saucepan, heat the three ounces butter, stir in the six tablespoons flour and cook for twenty minutes, stirring regularly, until the roux is thoroughly brown. Carefully pour the hot stock mixture into the roux, mixing well. Keep at a very gentle simmer for twelve hours, stirring regularly and adjusting the heat to prevent catching.
Step 4
Mix in the half pint sherry, then strain through a clean fine conical strainer into clean heat-safe containers, removing all bones and aromatics. Measure one and a half gills of the actual finished demi-glace for this sauce. Loosen that measured portion with a little hot ready-to-use unsalted veal broth until somewhat fluid, and keep all of it hot for immediate use. Rapidly cool the remaining demi-glace in shallow containers and refrigerate at 40°F or below within two hours; use within forty-eight hours or freeze.
Step 5
Measure one tablespoon of melted butter into a saucepan. Add the three finely chopped shallots and brown for two minutes. Add the two ounces lean ready-to-eat cooked ham, cut into small dice, half a teaspoon freshly chopped parsley, half a teaspoon freshly chopped chives and one gill dry red Bordeaux wine. Reduce for five minutes.
Step 6
Add all the loosened one-and-a-half-gill demi-glace portion and reduce for ten minutes, stirring. Keep the diced cooked ham hot throughout to 165°F.
Step 7
Mix the remaining half tablespoon melted butter with the one teaspoon flour. Add little by little to the sauce while stirring continuously. Heat gently until the sauce is smooth and the added flour is fully cooked, then serve promptly.
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