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Oxtail Hotch Potch



Ingredients

1 large Oxtail

Beef Beef

1/2 lb Butter

Butter Butter

4 sliced Onions

Spring Onion Spring Onion

3 large Carrots sliced

Carrot Carrot

3 crushed cloves Garlic

Garlic Garlic

1 glass Brandy

Brandy Brandy

1 bottle White Wine

Chinese Wine Chinese Wine

1 pint Beef Stock

Stock Stock

Salt

Salt Salt

Black Pepper

Capsicum Capsicum

Bouquet Garni (Parsley Stalks, Thyme, Bay Leaf)

Bouquet Garni Bouquet Garni

24 Button Mushrooms

Abalone Mushrooms Abalone Mushrooms

1/4 lb Fat Bacon or Pork diced

Bacon Bacon

24 Button Onions

Spring Onion Spring Onion

Method

Cut oxtail into segments (4-6 inches) and blanch in cold water for 6 hours. Drain and dry.

Melt 4 tablespoons butter and saute oxtail with onions and carrots unitl golden.

Add crushed garlic.

Pour in brandy and flame.

Add white wine and beef stock to cover oxtail.

Add salt, pepper and bouquet garni.

Simmer 3 hours.

Strain sauce off and put oxtail into clean casserole.

Saute mushrooms in butter with fat bacon, onions and a little sugar.

Skim fat from surface of sauce.

Pour over meat and veg.

Bring slowly to the boil and cook a further hour.

If necessary, thicken sauce in bain marie

Serve with a puree of chestnuts.


Remarks
Appeared in menu: Oxtail Hotch Potch $4.50 (Oxtail pieces blanched then sauteed with onions and carrots, flamed with brandy and cooked slowly in beef stock with herbs, garlic, white wine, then finished with button onions and mushrooms) Also 22-23.7.77 on the fixed price menu.

Variations
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