Beef, ceps, Grelot onion and wood sorrel

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 banana shallot, sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • ½ bunch thyme
  • 200g/7oz dried cep mushrooms
  • 1 banana shallot, sliced
  • 1 garlic clove, sliced
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 300g/10½oz button mushrooms, sliced
  • 300g/10½oz frozen cep mushrooms, sliced
  • 12 Grelot onions
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 4 fresh cep mushrooms, peeled and cut into slices
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 10g/¼oz chopped fresh curly parsley
  • 1 banana shallot, sliced into thin rings
  • 100g/3½oz wood sorrel leaves (smallish)

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 2 litres/3½fl oz chicken stock
  • 1 litre/1¾fl oz chicken stock
  • 50g/1¾oz plain flour

• Cooking ingredients

  • dash vegetable oil
  • salt
  • vegetable oil, for deep fat frying
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • sea salt

• Drinks

  • 50ml/2fl oz port
  • 200ml/7fl oz Madeira

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 200g/7oz unsalted butter
  • 300ml/10fl oz double cream
  • 100g/3½oz butter
  • unsalted butter
  • 200ml/7fl oz milk

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 4 strips fatty larding bacon
  • 4 x 200g/7oz tail-end fillet steaks

• Other

  • 20g/1½oz rendered beef fat
  • 200ml/7fl oz water
  • 10g/¼oz red vein sorrel cress

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