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Meal families

Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with ceps

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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Freshwater fish

Roasted pike with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Cheeses

Ashy goat cheese log

Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte

Rabbit stew with white wine.

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Poultry

Beer chicken

Chicken cooked in the oven with a cream and beer sauce.

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Desserts

Almond tuiles

Petit four, made with ground almonds, cooked and flattened into the shape of a roof tile commonly added as garnish to dessert.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Smoked salmon quiche

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Goat cheese tart

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Desserts

Pithivier

Gâteau of puff pastry filled with almond cream.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Mont Saint-Francis

United States. Indiana.
Raw goat's milk semi-hard cheese with a yellow washed rind.

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Poultry

Bresse fattened chicken in demi deuil

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.

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Cheeses

French Gouda

France.
Semi-hard whole cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Roncal

Spain. Navarre.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed with a colour ivory white or pale yellow and a blue-grey natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Glacier blue

United States. Washington.
Blue-veined raw cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 75 days.

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