Braxony Hill Blog: The Shooter's Sandwich!

Yeh - shooter's sandwich!

...and before you ask this does have something to do with hill walking as you really have to earn this sandwich to eat it.....

So I am not going to say too much more about this as it clearly speaks for itself....only that it is an Edwardian portable beef-wellingtonesque recipe devised to keep the gentleman hunter from getting too peckish on his jaunts in the countryside. The recipe came to me courtesy of Kate & Tim Hayward.

1. Look at the lovely ingredients : Falko's haferflocken roggenmischbrot, (you want a firm well-made bread that will stand up to this - no flimsy loaves, plus this darker bread is the tastiest), two lovely ribeye steaks, mushrooms, shallots, parsley, butter, garlic ....lovely!

2. It feels a little sacrilegious disemboweling the haferflocken roggenmischbrot, but you can use the crumbs later for loads of other things....or just eat them if you're Jackson....

3. Saute 200g of diced shallots and 500g diced chestnut mushrooms, with, (all margarine eaters cover you ears), 75g of salted butted.

4. Add the mushrooms and four finely diced garlic cloves.

5. Add a smidgen of brandy, just a smidgen...

6. Two lovely ribeye steaks from William Christies, Bruntsfield, with olive oil, salt and pepper.

7. Griddle the meat, cook mushrooms until they have reduced - a Le Creuset advert....

8. Juicy meeeeaaaaat

9. Here goes ....

10. Mmmm steak and bread...

11. Squish the steak in the bread basin.

12. Pat it down.

13. Add a layer of fresh parsley.

14. Scoop the lovely mushroom mixture into the bread basin on top of the parsley.

15. Tuck the second steak into the top.

16. Spread the top of the beef with horseradish...

17. ...... and the underside of the hat of bread with Dijon.

18.....and put its hat on - ahhh so pleasing.

19. ... Wrap it up in the falko paper & tie with string, finally wrap twice in tin-foil.

20. Flatten it overnight under a chopping board and something very heavy - in this case the heaviest thing in our flat, bar us - Lewisian gneiss bookends, (made by uncle Ian).