Eggetarian
Oeufs à la Bourguignonne Recipe
This is a good dish for a light supper or a winter luncheon, and can be made more important if it is garnished with sautéed chicken livers or braised onions, and sautéed or broiled mushrooms. Accompany it with a light red Burgundy or Beaujolais. Traditionally the eggs are poached in the wine, but they may be done in water in the usual way, if you wish.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups of brown stock or canned beef bouillon
- 2 cups good young red wine
- An 8-inch saucepan
- 8 very fresh eggs
- ½ bay leaf tied with 2 or 3 parsley sprigs
- tsp ¼thyme
- 1 clove mashed garlic
- 1 Tb minced shallot or green onion
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- Pinch of pepper
- 1 ½ Tb softened butter
- 2 Tb flour
- Optional: 1 Tb red currant jelly
- 1 to 2 Tb softened butter
- 8 in canapés ovals of white bread sautéedclarified butter. They may be rubbed with a cut clove of garlic if you wish.
- 2 to 3 Tb fresh minced parsley
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Instructions
- Bring the stock and wine to the simmer and poach the eggs in it. Remove the eggs to a fireproof dish, add 1/16 inch of poaching liquid, and set aside. About 5 minutes before serving, set the dish uncovered over simmering water to reheat the eggs.
- After poaching the eggs, add the herbs, garlic, shallot or onion, and seasonings to the wine and boil it down rapidly until it has reduced to 2 cups. Remove parsley and bay leaf.
- Blend the butter and flour to a smooth paste—beurre manié. Off heat, beat it into the wine mixture with a wire whip. Boil for 30 seconds. Beat in the optional currant jelly for color and flavor, and correct seasoning.
- (*) If not to be used immediately, set aside uncovered, top dotted with part of the enrichment butter.
- Just before serving, reheat the sauce to the simmer. Off heat, beat in the butter.
- Place a hot egg on each canapé and arrange on a platter or serving plates. Surround with whatever garniture you may have chosen, and spoon the hot sauce over. Decorate with parsley, and serve.