Venison Patee
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
-
1 patee
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 lbs ground venison
- 1 1⁄4 lbs ground pork
- 8 ounces venison, cut into strips
- 4 ounces pork fatback, rind removed, blanched, and cut into strips
- 8 ounces chestnuts, crumbled
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons nutmeg, freshly grated
- 2 large garlic cloves, peeled and minced
- 1⁄2 cup dried currant
- 1⁄2 cup red wine
- 1⁄4 cup cognac
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons raspberry vinegar
- fresh ground black pepper
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 bay leaf
- 16 ounces pork fatback, sliced 1/8 inch thick, simmered for 2 minutes in water, and patted dry
- cornichon, for garnish
directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 °F.
- combine the ground venison, ground pork, venison strips, fatback strips, chestnuts, ground cloves and allspice, nutmeg, garlic, currants, cooking wine, cognac, vinegar, salt, and pepper in a large bowl and let the mixture stand for 1 to 2 hours.
- Add the eggs and mix well.
- Fry a small ball of the mixture until cooked and taste for seasonings, adjusting as necessary.
- The pate should be spicy.
- Line a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with fatback slices, extending them so they can be folded back over the top of the pate.
- Transfer the pate mixture into the mold, packing it down into the corners.
- Fold the fatback slices over the top of the pate.
- Cover the top of the pan tightly with three layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil, and punch 1 or 2 steam holes in the top.
- Place the loaf pan or mold in another larger pan and fill the larger pan with enough boiling water to come halfway up the outside of the mold.
- Bake for 1 hour and a half or until the juices run clear.
- Remove the pate from the oven, lift the foil, and check to see if the pate has shrunk slightly from the edges.
- Put the foil back on, place the pate on a plate, and put a flat board or another loaf pan the same size on top.
- Weigh it with 1 1/2 pounds of cans, jars or pie weights for 2 hours, then refrigerate overnight.
- Remove the pate from the loaf pan, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 5 to 7 days before eating.
- Remove the pate from the refrigerator at least 1 hour before serving.
- Cut as needed.
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