Daube Glace Food

DAUBE GLACE

Steps:

• Dry meat with paper towels. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. In large, heavy-bottom casserole, heat bacon grease till smoking; sear meat on all sides. Remove meat; pour out grease.
• Return meat to pan; add veal stock, wine, brandy, vegetables and spices. Cover; heat liquid to simmering over medium-low heat. Reduce heat to very low, cover and simmer for 3 hours, turning meat if it's not submerged.
• Remove meat to a bowl; let stand till cool.
• Trim fat from meat and cut meat into 1/2-inch dice. Oil two 1 1/2-quart loaf pans and spread half of meat in each pan.
• Pour stock through a cheesecloth-lined strainer over a large bowl. Skim fat from stock.
• Place 1 cup water in a small saucepan and sprinkle with gelatin. Set aside for 5 minutes to soften and heat over low heat until dissolved. Stir into stock. Add 2 tablespoons salt, the lemon juice, Worcestershire and Tabasco; stir well and pour over meat. Refrigerate till stock is set.
• To serve, remove fat from top of jellied stock and unmold each loaf onto a serving platter. Slice with a sharp knife dipped in hot water. For hors d'oeuvres, cut into small squares. Serve on baguette slices with Creole mustard or homemade mayonnaise.

MOCK DAUBE GLACE APPETIZER (DAUBE GLACé)

Steps:

• In a large pot, over medium heat, bring consommé to a boil.
• Soften gelatin in a little of the wine; then add the gelatin with the liquid to the consommé.
• Add the lemon juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, shallot, garlic, and thyme; simmer, covered for 30 minutes.
• Pour half of the mixture into a ring mold and refrigerate, covered, until set (3 hours).
• Soften liverwurst with a little of the wine and some of the remaining consommé mixture, mixing until well blended (a food processor works well for this); then spread the sausage over the jellied consommé layer.
• Refrigerate until set (2 hours); then pour the remaining consommé mixture over the liverwurst layer.
• Refrigerate until final layer is set (5 hours).
• Unmold and serve with crackers.

CREOLE DAUBE GLACé

Steps:

• Slice olives and arrange in bottom of a 6-cup mold.
• Carefully sprinkle beef over olives.
• In large bowl, mix gelatin and 1/2 cup of the beef broth.
• Heat remaining broth to boiling; add to gelatin mixture and stir until gelatin is completely dissolved.
• Add remaining ingredients; mix well.
• Chill just until mixture is consistency of unbeaten egg whites, then pour over olives and meat in mold.
• Chill until firm; unmold to serve.