Hot Ham Mousse

Name: Hot Ham Mousse
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 lb/450 g cooked ham, trimmed of fat; ¾ pint/420 ml single cream; 2 tbsp dry sherry; Plenty of freshly ground black pepper; A dash of Tabasco sauce; 6 large eggs; A grating of nutmeg

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is so easy to make. You can either serve it with Horseradish Sauce, or if you prefer something rather less rich, you can substitute Simple Tomato Sauce.

Ingredients

1 lb/450 g cooked ham, trimmed of fat
¾ pint/420

Starter
Gluten-free

Method

Butter a large soufflé dish, or two equal-sized smaller dishes. Put the ham into a food processor and whiz till fine, then, still whizzing, add the cream, Tabasco, pepper and nutmeg. Continue to whiz and add 2 whole eggs, then the yolks of the remaining 4 eggs, and the sherry. In a bowl, whisk the whites with a pinch of salt (to give a greater volume) till they are very stiff. With a large meta