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Lampreys
Created by Chef Juliette
Cold filling, cold pastry, and a hot oven turn the canon’s lamprey cross-reference into a generous tourte, its burnished crust holding the linked eel-pie preparation for one cook and four diners.
Tourte de lamproie (lamprey pie) teaches one hard and useful truth: a pie is only as good as the temperature of its filling. Put warm filling beneath butter-rich pastry and the fat runs before the layers can set. Chill it fully and the crust rises crisp around a generous, savory center. Cold filling is the one thing to settle before touching the rolling pin.
The source gives lamprey no separate sauce or seasoning. It sends the cook directly to Eels (No. 755), assuming that preparation is already understood, a pastry cook is nearby, and the fish arrives properly dressed. At home, the separate pastry station is scaffolding and goes. The finished referenced preparation stays whole, dressed lamprey replaces the eel, and bought all-butter puff pastry stands in honestly for the pastry bench. Nothing Bordelais is imported because the entry does not call for it.
This scales to one 9-inch tourte: one cook, one stove, one evening, provided the linked filling is ready and cold. Keep the filling chilled, handle the pastry briefly, and give the base strong heat from the first minute. If the pastry softens, stop and chill it. Ça se rattrape.
Ingredients
finished referenced pie filling
Quantity
1 chilled batch Eels (No. 755), using 2 lb (900 g) dressed lamprey
prepared exactly as its own entry directs, with lamprey replacing eel, then cooled completely
all-butter puff pastry
Quantity
1 package (1.1 lb / 500 g)
thawed but cold
plain flour
Quantity
2 tablespoons (30 ml / 16 g)
for rolling
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| finished referenced pie fillingprepared exactly as its own entry directs, with lamprey replacing eel, then cooled completely | 1 chilled batch Eels (No. 755), using 2 lb (900 g) dressed lamprey |
| all-butter puff pastrythawed but cold | 1 package (1.1 lb / 500 g) |
| plain flourfor rolling | 2 tablespoons (30 ml / 16 g) |
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