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Meal families

Desserts

Gingerbread charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Others

Snails Burgundy style

Snails with garlic ans parsley butter (butter, garlic and parsley mixed).

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Rabbit

Rabbit galantine

Mixture of meat and bacon sliced or chopped then boiled.

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Cold starters

en gelatina

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Desserts

Malakoff Charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Desserts

Rice Condé

Rice pudding with an egg and sugar mixture added at the end of cooking.

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Poultry

Young guinea fowl with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Others

Frog legs cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Appetizers

Accras cod

Slightly spicy cod fritters.
Serve warm or at apéritif as input.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Arcachon european flat oyster Bordeaux style

Gravette : Bassin d'Arcachon oyster.
Bordeaux style : with sausages.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Green asparagus quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Poultry

Turkey cutlet with white sauce

White sauce : heated flour and butter to which a hot liquid is added (broth, water, cooking juices, wine).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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Pork

Cold roast pork with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Cheeses

Prairie sunset

United States. Wisconsin.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Cooked meats

Small chitterling sausage with Pont-Neuf potatoes

Sausage cooked with white wine and deglazed with cream.
Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pigeon pie

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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