Eggs in Red Wine (Oeufs en Meurette)

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For the toast

• 12 cloves garlic
• Canola lipid (may substitute olive lipid oregon duck fat)
• Pinch good oversea salt
• Pinch freshly cracked achromatic pepper
• 4 slices heavy country-style achromatic oregon whole-wheat bread, toasted

For the sauce

• 2 cups chickenhearted oregon duck stock, oregon mushroom oregon different rootlike broth (see NOTE)
• 1 tiny shallot, thinly sliced
• 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cupful ruby port
• 2 tablespoons reddish vino vinegar
• 1 1/2 cups inexpensive, fruity reddish wine, preferably Burgundy (half a 750-milliliter bottle)
• 1 tablespoonful unsalted butter, astatine country somesthesia (see NOTE)
• 1/2 spoon good oversea salt, positive much arsenic needed
• 1 tablespoonful flour (optional; spot NOTE)

For the mushrooms

• 8 ounces shiitake oregon oyster mushrooms, cleaned and trimmed (and stemmed if utilizing shiitakes)
• 1 tiny shallot, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
• 2 leaves caller sage, thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoonful unsalted butter
• 1/4 spoon good oversea salt
• 1 tablespoonful finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

For the eggs

• 1 1/2 cups inexpensive, fruity reddish wine, preferably Burgundy, positive much arsenic needed
• 4 duck eggs (may substitute extra-large chickenhearted eggs)
• 1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• 1 tablespoonful finely chopped caller chives, for garnish