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Mutton Mignons with Port Sauce
Pan-fried mutton-leg mignons on toast with a port, currant-jelly and lemon-rind 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 gill 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
Wash the lemon and peel the coloured rind from half of it, leaving the white pith. Mix the two tablespoons currant jelly and half gill port wine thoroughly in a small saucepan.
Step 6
Add all the loosened one-gill demi-glace portion and the prepared lemon rind. Boil for five minutes, remove the rind and keep briefly hot for immediate serving.
Step 7
Use six tender mutton-leg mignon steaks of four ounces each and gently flatten them. Season with the separate one teaspoon salt and half a teaspoon white pepper. Gently melt butter and measure one tablespoon into a frying pan, heat thoroughly and fry the steaks for about four minutes on each side, until each thickest centre reaches at least 145°F. Transfer to a clean warm dish and rest for three minutes.
Step 8
Prepare six fresh round plain toasts while the steaks cook. Put one rested steak on each toast, pour the complete freshly made hot port sauce over and serve promptly.
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