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Meal families

Desserts

Lemon 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

Blancmange

Milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Freshwater fish

Roast pike-perch in a beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Bondard

France. Normandy. Neufchatel-en-Bray.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese enriched with cream with mould on the rind.

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Cheeses

Munster

France. Alsace (Munster) and Lorraine (Munster Géromé).
Soft-ripened pasteurized or raw cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Sea fish

Darne of salmon with sorrel sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Sea fish

Brandade de haddock

Brandade : mixture of fish and olive oil.

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Sea fish

Brill with sorrel sauce

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seven-vegetable couscous with herb broth

Steamed semolina served with vegetable stew (purple artichoke, carrot, zucchini, beans, turnips, peas, tomato) accompanied by a spicy broth.
Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Desserts

Christmas pudding

United Kingdom.
Dark-coloured Christmas cake, steamed for a long time with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses and often beef kidney fat and flavoured with beer (Porter, Stout), alcohol (Cognac) or citrus juice. Before being served with cognac or flambéed rum.

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Sauces

Piquante sauce

Piquante sauce : white wine with a reduction of shallots, vinegar with chervil, pickles, parsley and demi-glace (reduced veal stock).

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