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Meal families

Beef

Beef bourguignon

Long cooking over low heat in a closed container of beef cooked in red wine with mushrooms, onions and bacon. Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.

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Poultry

Pigeon en vessie with cream sauce

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Pork

Peking knuckle of pork with spices

Glazed : spreading honey on the skin of an animal before cooking to obtain a crunchy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cannelloni with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Beef

Rib steak barbecue

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Desserts

Gugelhupf

Bundt cake which contains raisins, almonds and Kirsch cherry brandy, sometimes candied fruits and nuts.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken with morel sauce

Morel sauce: chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Veal

Amourettes with morel and potato

Amourettes fritters of animals testicules.

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Cheeses

Niolo

France. Corsica. Niolo.
Soft-ripened sheep or goat's cheese with washed rind.

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Cheeses

Berkswell

United Kingdom. West Midlands.
Hard sheep's raw milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Sauces

Montpellier butter

Butter mixed with garlic, capers, herbs (chervil, watercress, spinach, tarragon, parsley), gherkin, shallot, anchovy fillet and hard-boiled egg.

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Sauces

Aioli sauce

Provencal sauce.
Emulsion of garlic and olive oil, sometimes with egg yolk and lemon juice.

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Desserts

Strawberry shortcake

United Kingdom.
Shortcake : sweet cake covered with a layer of fruit, juice and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Crottin de Champcol

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's cheese with mould on the rind.

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