Demi-glace From The Plaza Hotel

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb mushroom
• 1/2 cup dry sherry
• 2 cups brown sauce
• 1 tablespoon glace de viande
• 1/2 cup beef fat
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1/2 cup flour
• 2 quarts brown stock
• 1 garlic clove
• 2 stalks celery
• 4 sprigs parsley
• 1 bay leaf
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1/2 cup tomato puree
• 4 quarts veal broth for glace de viande

Recipe

• 1 chop mushroom stems and peelings.
• 2 simmer with sherry until reduced by one-half.
• 3 stir in brown sauce and glace de viande.
• 4 bring to a boil.
• 5 reduce heat to a simmer and cook 10-15 minutes.
• 6 strain.
• 7 makes 1-1/2 cups.
• 8 to make brown sauce/sauce espagnole:.
• 9 melt the fat in a heavy saucepan and cook the carrot and onions until lightly browned. stir in the flour and continue cooking until the flour is browned, stirring continuously.
• 10 add 3 cups boiling stock [can substitute better than bouillon beef base], the garlic and the garlic, celery, parsley and bay leaf tied in a bundle.
• 11 cook and stir over medium heat until the mixture thickens. add 3 more cups of hot beef stock.
• 12 cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour. skim off the fat as it floats to the surface.
• 13 stir in the tomato puree and cook 10 minutes. strain through a fine sieve.
• 14 add the remaining 2 cups of hot stock and cook slowly over low heat for 1 hour. skim as needed. at this point, the sauce should be reduced to about 4 cups. strain and cool again.
• 15 store, covered in the refrigerator. use within 8-9 days
• 16 can substitute lamb fat for beef fat.
• 17 for glace de viande: bring 4 quarts veal broth [can substitute chicken broth] into a heavy pot or dutch oven and bring to boil over a low heat and then simmer for 2 hours until only about 1 quart of broth remains. strain broth into a small saucepan and continue to simmer over low heat until the liquid remaining in the saucepan is brown in color and of a syrupy consistency. strain into a bowl or jar and refrigerate to use as needed.