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Eggs, Aigredoux
Baked eggs over sweet peppers in a tangy tarragon, chervil and demi-glace sauce with sherry.
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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
Preheat a conventional oven to 375°F. Wash and trim the six small fresh Spanish sweet peppers, remove stalks and seeds and cut into small squares. Put them in a saucepan with the half teaspoon finely chopped tarragon, half teaspoon chopped chervil and half gill vinegar. Cover and reduce over heat for five minutes.
Step 6
Pour in all the hot loosened one-and-a-half-gill demi-glace portion and the separate one tablespoon sherry. Mix gently, cover again and boil for six minutes.
Step 7
Pour all the hot pepper sauce into a large shallow oven-safe baking dish with enough surface area for the twelve eggs in one even layer. Carefully crack all twelve fresh eggs over the sauce. Season evenly with the separate half teaspoon salt and three saltspoons white pepper in total, then pour the separate one tablespoon melted butter over them. Bake, beginning checks at six minutes, and continue as needed until all the whites and yolks are firm and the egg centres reach 160°F. Remove and serve promptly.
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