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OX TAILS
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OX TAILS

14 ingredients 29 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

509
Calories
23g
Protein
33g
Fat
26g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Sausage 100g cooked 301
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Broccoli 1 cup chopped (156g) 55
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a pinch of pepper
  • a piece of linen after the manner of a galantine
  • one-third white wine
  • two mixed
  • two whole eggs
  • one prepared
  • two pig's trotters
  • five pieces
  • one pig's ear
  • one small cabbage
  • ten small onions
  • ten grilled chipolata sausages
  • salt
  • pepper

Directions

1

Ox tails, sectioned or unsectioned, are usually braised, and only the thicker half of the caudal appendage is ever used.

2

1159—QUEUE DE BŒUF A L’AUVERGNATE

3

Section the tail, and braise it in white wine, after recipe No. 247.

4

Prepare a garnish of rectangles of lean bacon, large chestnuts cooked in consommé and glazed, and small onions cooked in butter.

5

Put the sections of the tail in an earthenware _cocotte_ with the garnish.

6

1160—QUEUE DE BŒUF A LA CAVOUR

7

Section the tail, and braise it in a moistening two-thirds of which is brown stock and one-third white wine. It is well for the moistening to be somewhat abundant. Set to cook very gently, until the meat falls from the bones, _i.e._, for a matter of about four and one-half or five hours.

8

This done, dish the sections of the tail in a _cocotte_; add some small, cooked mushrooms; clear the cooking-liquor of grease; reduce it, and thicken it slightly with fecula. Strain this thickened cooking-liquor over the sections of the tail and the mushrooms, and set to boil very gently for ten minutes.

9

Serve thus in the _cocotte_ set on a dish, and send a timbale of chestnut purée to the table at the same time.

10

1161—QUEUE DE BŒUF FARCIE

11

Choose a large ox tail, and bone it carefully without bursting it.

12

Lay it on a napkin, and stuff it with a forcemeat consisting of the following ingredients:—Three-quarters lb. of very lean beef and one-half lb. of chopped fat bacon, the two mixed with four oz. of bread-crumbs soaked in milk and pressed; two whole eggs; three oz. of truffle peel; one-half oz. of salt, a pinch of pepper, and a very little spice.

13

Sew up the tail, cover it with a piece of linen after the manner of a galantine, and cook it gently for three hours in a very light stock with vegetables as for boiled beef.

14

At the end of the three hours take it out of the linen; put it into a sautépan, the bottom of which should be garnished as for a braising; add a little of the cooking-liquor of the tail, and complete the cooking, basting often the while. Take care to baste more frequently towards the close of the operation with the view of properly glazing the meat.

15

When about to serve, dish it, after having removed all string, and lightly coat the bottom of the dish with a sauce consisting of the cooking-liquor, reduced and thickened with arrow-root. Send what remains of the cooking-liquor in a sauceboat.

16

Serve separately either a purée, a garnish of braised vegetables, or one of the sauces suited to pieces of beef.

17

1162—QUEUE DE BŒUF GRILLÉE

18

Cut the tail into sections twice the usual length, and cook these in a stewpan for five hours with salted water and aromatics.

19

Drain the sections; dry them well; dip them in melted butter, and roll them in very fine bread-crumbs. Sprinkle with melted butter, and set to grill gently.

20

Grilled ox tail may be served with any vegetable purée. An ordinary Soubise, or one prepared “à la Noailles,” as explained under the piece of beef of that name, also suits very well.

21

In any case, the Soubise should be sufficiently thick.

22

Such sauces as à la Diable, Hachée, Piquante, Robert, Tomato, Italienne, &c., are also suited to grilled ox tail.

23

N.B.—When the adjunct to grilled ox tail is a highly-seasoned sauce, the sections should first be covered with a coat of mustard, then dipped in melted butter, and finally rolled in bread-crumbs.

24

1163—QUEUE DE BŒUF EN HOCHEPOT

25

Cut the tail into sections, and put these into a stewpan of convenient size, with two pig’s trotters, each of which must be cut into four or five pieces, and one pig’s ear. Cover the whole with cold water; add salt to the extent of one-third oz. per quart of the liquid; set to boil; skim, and leave to cook gently for two hours.

26

This done, add one small cabbage, cut into quarters, parboiled and cooled; ten small onions; five oz. of carrots, and the same weight of turnips, cut to the shape of large, garlic cloves.

27

Set the whole to cook for a further two hours at least.

28

When about to serve, dish the sections of tail in a circle; put the vegetable garnish in the centre, and surround the latter with the pig’s ear cut into small, narrow strips, and ten grilled chipolata sausages.

29

Serve, separately, a timbale of potatoes cooked _à l’anglaise_.

By Auguste Escoffier · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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