Quartier de derrière du Daim - Roast Venison
Ingredients:
Haunch of Venison
Salt
pastry
water
Flour - enough to make a pastry crust that covers the haunch
6 eggs
salt
Buttered parchment paper to wrap the haunch
Currant jelly to serve.
Preparation:
Remove the chump bone. (The bone where the loin meets the leg)
Sprinkle with salt and ground pepper.
Crush together garlic, rosemary and and rub on the haunch.
Make sufficient quantity of paste (dough) adding only a little water as it must be very firm
Wrap the dough in a wet cloth and leave it to rest for an hour
Afterwards,, roll it out to about 1/8 “
Wrap the venison entirely in the dough
Wrap it with buttered parchment paper
Put the venison on a spit if you have it or a rack in a roasting pan
Let it roast at 350 degrees for three hours
Take off the paper and let the dough brown.
Slice and serve it with currant jelly.
This recipes is from
The Art of French Cookery - by Antoine Beauvilliers
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