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Meal families

Cooked meats

Hare pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Cheeses

Ash covered goat cheese

Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind rind coated in ash.

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Poultry

Roasted duckling with Rouen sauce

Duckling : young duck.
Rouen sauce : cider or full-bodied red wine reduced with shallots sweated in butter, combined with brown veal stock, parsley, salt, and pepper, and thickened with a purée of chicken liver.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with spring vegetables

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Beef

Grape beef stew

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Desserts

Basque cake with rhum-flavoured pastry cream

Basque Country.
Cake filled with almond or rum and vanilla pastry cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with mixed spring vegetables

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Mixed vegetables : Vegetables cut into sticks, boiled, drained and mixed with peas.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Game birds

Larded quail

To lard : to insert small pieces of bacon or cured ham into meat.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops skewers

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Desserts

Cassata

Italy. Sicily.
Sponge cake soaked with fruit juice or liqueur and filled with ricotta and chocolate or vanilla cream. Covered with green-colored almond paste icing and candied fruits.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Steamed mussels with pistou

Pistou : provençal sauce made from crushed basil, garlic, and olive oil.

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