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Meal families

Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Desserts

Savarin with whipped cream

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.
Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

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Desserts

Chocolate cake and cofee custard

Custard : mixture of milk or cream, egg yolks and sugar flavored with vanilla.

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Desserts

Apricot blancmange

Blanc-manger : milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Desserts

Vatrushka with lemon

Russia. Ukraine. Brioche cake topped with cottage cheese, sometimes flavored.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with thyme

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Braised endive

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Sauces

Shrimp butter

Butter mixed with mixed shrimp.

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Desserts

Praline merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with orange

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Desserts

Blackberry crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Boiled crab

Crab cooked in a broth.

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Poultry

Chicken bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

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Freshwater fish

Supreme of pike-perch in a beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Bleu de Termignon

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.

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Cold starters

Sea bass carpaccio with dill

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with fresh cream

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Offal and tripe

Abignades

Goose tripe and blood cooked.
Served on fried breath with goose fat.

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