Charlot123
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Someone earlier had said that perhaps there were two Beef Wellingtons, one with the poison, another, without. My only question is, if so, why didn’t she serve the “poisonless” when Simon didn’t show up? Or could it be so that everyone was waiting for him, and he simply skipped the dinner? It could have happened. Everyone is waiting for him, and he changed his plans but didn’t tell anyone.If this is indeed a premeditated crime, how was it pulled off?
- a true beef wellington recipe calls for the mushrooms to be finely chopped and fried in olive with herbs. Gordon Ramsay’s version states to continue to cook them over high heat for about 10 minutes - once the mushrooms begin to release their juices. Then when all evaporated, you are left with a mushroom paste. Known as Duxelle. This is where I am perplexed. The chemist experts say that only a very small particle such as a 20 cent coin is enough to kill. The entire dish after cooking would have been permeated with this extremely toxic paste. Enclosed under a layer of proscuitto, wrapped over the seared beef, all enclosed in pastry and baked.
I am no expert, but I would imagine that the entire dish would have been thoroughly impregnated.
- She says that the guests served theirs first and she went last.
- So how did she avoid it?
- She also said that she scraped the mushrooms off the leftovers for her two children to eat the next day.
- She also says that she did become very ill and was hospitalised.
Very, very weird.
I think that the testimony of both Simon and the survivor would be very helpful.