Name: Pork Fillet in Pastry with Wild Mushrooms & Cream Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Finland
Ingredients: 4–5 tablespoons iced water; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 40 g (1½ oz) butter; 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) piece of pork fillet; 225 g (8 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 225 g (8 oz) chilled butter, diced; 125 ml (½ cup) pouring (single) cream; 300 g (10½ oz) mixed wild mushrooms; 60 ml (¼ cup) brandy; 4 garlic cloves

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

This is lovely: a whole pork fillet, cooked with mushrooms and wrapped in a jacket of pastry. If you can’t get fresh wild mushrooms, buy 10 g (¼ oz) dried wild mushrooms and soak them in a little water until they’ve plumped up. Make up the rest of the weight with ordinary mushrooms.