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Venison Steaks with Raisins
Venison steaks finished in a sherry, currant-jelly and raisin demi-glace sauce.
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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
Use six fresh raw venison steaks weighing five ounces each. Season all over with the separate one teaspoon salt and half teaspoon pepper.
Step 6
Thoroughly heat the separate one tablespoon melted butter in a wide sauté pan. Arrange the steaks side by side and briskly fry for about two minutes on each side. Lift onto a clean plate and keep briefly hot; the meat will finish cooking in the sauce.
Step 7
Remove the frying fat from the pan. Add the two tablespoons currant jelly and stir over the heat until melted. Add the separate two tablespoons sherry, all the loosened one-and-a-half-gill demi-glace portion and two ounces seeded California raisins. Mix well and gently boil for six minutes.
Step 8
Return the steaks side by side to the sauce and cook for about six minutes, continuing until a food thermometer in the thickest part of every steak reads at least 160°F. Transfer with clean utensils to a hot dish, pour all the sauce over and serve promptly.
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