Name: Small Chou Farcis
Yield: Makes 6 balls
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1¼ cups (300 ml) milk; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1½ cups (140 g) dried breadcrumbs; 2 French echalions (banana shallots), diced; 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce; 1 egg, beaten; 1 (12-ounce/355 ml) bottle bock beer (or other strong lager); 5¼ ounces (150 g) ground pork; 6 strips bacon, cut in half crosswise; 6 nice Savoy cabbage leaves; 3 tablespoons prepared mustard; 1 pound 7 ounces (650 g) ground beef

Preparation info

Makes
6
balls

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Home Made in the Oven

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2019

About

Recently it was time for a new roasting pan. I had cooked away the bottom of my old pan. I know they’re supposed to last a lifetime, but I used my Dutch ovens so intensely that the enamel had separated from the bottom after twenty years. It was sad, as I really loved my big orange friend. We’ve been through a lot together, given that a Dutch oven typically serves comfort food. And now I had to exchange him for a shiny red Le Creuset pan. It felt cruel, but life is hard. My new red friend pr