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Sweetbreads Alice
Larded calf sweetbreads cooked in cream and milk with mushroom caps, served on round toast under individual metal cloches.
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Step 1
Choose six small all-metal food cloches that the maker specifies as suitable for oven use, and six individual dishes suitable for both direct hob heat and oven use. Follow the makers' restrictions for every part, including handles. Have the cooking ingredients and pan ready before blanching so the sweetbreads can continue directly through the cooking.
Step 2
Have a butcher supply six fresh raw calf heart sweetbreads, the compact thymus kernels. Soak them in cold potable water in the refrigerator at 4°C or below for two hours. Lift them out and discard the soaking water. Bring the separate two quarts of water to a boil with one teaspoon of salt, add the sweetbreads and blanch for five minutes. Lift out, drain on a clean cloth and trim neatly.
Step 3
Cut twenty-four very thin strips of raw pork fatback. With a small clean larding needle, carefully insert four strips into the top of each sweetbread. Lay the six sweetbreads side by side in a sauté pan. Add the remaining teaspoon of salt, two saltspoons cayenne, one saltspoon grated nutmeg, three-quarters of a pint cold pasteurized cream and one pint fresh pasteurized milk. Cover and bring to a gentle boil for about ten minutes.
Step 4
Peel and clean the twelve mushroom caps. Add them to the sweetbreads and maintain a gentle boil for about fifteen minutes longer. Continue cooking as needed until the sweetbreads and inserted pork are fully cooked. Use a clean fine-tip thermometer to check the centre and the thickest larded areas of every sweetbread: they must reach at least 71.1°C before assembly.
Step 5
Knead the half ounce of butter with the teaspoon of flour. Add all of it gradually to the pan, mixing gently with a wooden spoon while cooking for about one minute, without breaking the sweetbreads. Keep the cooked sweetbreads, mushroom caps and sauce hot while arranging the dishes.
Step 6
Have a conventional oven at a moderate setting within the selected cookware's permitted use. Cut six round bread pieces to fit the bottoms of the cloches and toast them lightly. Put one toast in each dish, one cooked sweetbread on each toast and two mushroom caps on each sweetbread. Cover each stack with its metal cloche. Divide all the recovered sauce evenly among the six dishes around the outside of the cloches.
Step 7
Heat the dishes gently on the hob until the sauce comes to a boil, then transfer them to the moderate oven with the cloches in place. Finish for about ten minutes, keeping the food hot.
Step 8
Using oven mitts, remove the dishes and place each on a serving plate. Take them to the table still covered and lift the cloches only at the table. Serve immediately.
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