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B&B Luncheon, June 2004

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Soufflé Oysters

Serves 6

Ingredients:

  • 24 Oysters on the shell
  • 3 rashers lean bacon
  • 60g butter
  • 1 ½ tablespoons plain flour
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon French mustard
  • salt and pepper
  • 60g cheddar cheese
  • 2 eggs separated

 

Method:

Put oysters onto baking tray. Remove rind from bacon, chop bacon into small pieces.
Put in frying pan, cook until bacon is crisp and sprinkle evenly over oysters.
Heat butter in saucepan add flour stir until combined, remove from heat.
Gradually add milk, stir until combined. Add mustard, salt and pepper. Return pan to heat, stir until sauce boils and thickens remove from heat.
Add grated cheese, stir until cheese has melted.
Add egg yolks stir until combined.
Allow mixture to cool, until warm.
Beat egg whites until soft peaks form and gently fold into cheese mixture.
Spoon heaped teaspoonfuls of mixture on to each oyster.
Bake in hot oven 5 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.
Serve with wedge of lemon and garnish of parsley.
4 oysters per serve

 

Main

Fillet Steak with Whisky Cream Sauce

Serves 2

Ingredients:

  • 2 x Fillet steaks, 1" thick
  • 2 slices Vienna bread
  • 30g butter
  • 1 teaspoon French mustard
  • 60g extra butter
  • 1 teaspoon plain flour
  • 1 shallot
  • 3 tablespoons of water
  • ¼ cup cream
  • 2 teaspoons chopped parsley
  • 1 beef stock cube
  • 1 teaspoon whisky
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

 

Method:

Press steaks to a neat shape. Cut bead into rounds about the same size as steaks.
Heat butter in pan, add mustard, mix well.
Brush bread with mustard butter and place on oven tray. Bake in moderate oven 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Heat extra butter in pan add steaks, cook until done medium.
Remove from pan a nd keep warm.
Drain off drippings, leaving 1 tablespoon in pan. Add flour, add finely chopped shallot, stir over medium heat a few seconds.
Stir in water, stir until sauce boils add cream, parsley, crumbled stock cube, whisky and lemon juice, reduce heat simmer 2 minutes.
Stack steak on bread and drizzle with sauce.

 

Serve with:

Bean bundle

Ingredients

  • 250g beans in two bundles
  • chives
  • 30g butter
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • salt and pepper

Method

Top, tail, and string beans. Cook approx 10 minutes in boiling salted water.
Drain.
Divide beans into 2 bundles secure each with chives tie.
Melt butter add lemon juice, stir until combined. Add beans heat gently and season with salt and pepper.

 

Herbed Tomatoes

Ingredients

  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • salt and pepper
  • 10g butter
  • 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
  • 1 teaspoon chopped chives
  • 1 teaspoon basil

Method

Slice off stem end of each tomato
Put tomato into ovenproof dish.
Sprinkle lemon juice over cut top of tomatoes then salt and pepper.
Bake in moderate oven dot each tomato with butter, sprinkle combined parsley, chives and basil over.
Bake for a further 5 minutes.
Dessert

Poached Pears with Pastry Twists

Serves 10

Ingredients:

  • 10 pears peeled
  • 4 cups red wine
  • 2 cups water
  • 275g castor sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 vanilla bean split
  • 2 strips lemon rind
  • 2 strips orange rind
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 80ml orange juice
  • 2 tablespoons castor sugar extra
  • 2 tablespoons Contreau liqueur

 

Method:

Core pears using melon baller, Leave stems attached
Combine wine, water, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, rinds and juices in large pan.
Stir over heat without boiling until sugar dissolves.
Add pears simmer covered about 12 minutes or until pears are soft.
Remove from heat. Top with plastic wrap to keep pears submerged.
Cool.
Refrigerate for 3 hours until cold.
Remove pears from liquid and strain.
Boil liquid in pan uncovered until reduces to 375ml (1 ½ cups)
Stir in extra sugar and liqueur.
Stir over heat, without boiling until sugar is dissolved then simmer uncovered 2 minutes.
Cool.
Cover and refrigerate until cold.
Serve pears with liqueur syrup and pastry twists.

Pastry twists

Ingredients:

  • 4 sheets ready rolled puff pastry
  • 1 egg white lightly beaten
  • ½ cup castor sugar
  • ¼ cup castor sugar extra.

 

Method:

Grease oven trays, cover with baking paper.
Brush 2 sheets of pastry with some of the egg white.
Sprinkle 1 sheet with ¼ cup of the sugar, top with second sheet, egg white side down.
Brush pastry with more egg white sprinkle with 1 tablespoon extra castor sugar.
Cut pastry in half lengthways then into 2cm strips.
Twist pastry place on prepared trays, brush with more egg white, sprinkle with more sugar.
Bake in hot oven about 12 minutes or until crisp.
Repeat with remaining pastry, egg white and sugar.
Serve say 3 twists per serve.

 

Wine

Wine List

Course: Wine:
Aperitif: Yarra Burn
Pinot Noir Chardonnay
Pinot Meunier 2000
Yarra Junction Victoria
Entree: Moss Wood
Ribbonvale Vineyard
Semillon Savignon Blanc 2003
Margaret River
Main 1: Ebenezer Shiraz 2000
Barossa Valley Estate
Narananga SA
Main 2: Paringa Merlot 2003 Clarendale SA
Desert: De Bortoli Noble One
Botrytis Semillon 1992
Bilbul NSW
Fortified: De Boroli
Show Liqueur Muscat

 


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