Timbale of Macaroni and Sweetbreads

Name: Timbale of Macaroni and Sweetbreads
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 11 tablespoons butter; ½ pound thin macaroni (like spaghetti but larger, with a hole in center); ½ pound thin macaroni (like spaghetti but larger, with a hole in center); 2 pounds sweetbreads; 1 cup whipping cream; 2 cups chicken and ham forcemeat; 1 pound fresh shiitake, domestic, and/or wild mushrooms, sliced; 1 pound fresh shiitake, domestic, and/or wild mushrooms, sliced; 1 pound fresh shiitake, domestic, and/or wild mushrooms, sliced; ½ tablespoon chopped garlic; 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, chopped; 1 tablespoon tarragon leaves; salt and freshly ground pepper; salt and freshly ground pepper; 2 cups tomato sauce

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Jeremiah Tower's New American Classics

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 1986

About

This nineteenth-century-sounding dish can in fact be found in one of the greatest books of that century, the École des Cuisiniers of Urbain Dubois, but I first saw it in the book that inspired me from its first pages and continues to do so, The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney. Use a whole chicken breast, wi

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Americas
United States
Main course
Lunch
Baking

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