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Meal families

Cooked meats

Game pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Sheep and Goats

Mutton carbonade

France. Southern France.
Stew with red wine, onions, garlic and meat scraps.

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Sea fish

Sea bream with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Desserts

Ambassadeur

Sponge cake soaked in Grand Marnier (sometimes Kirsch), layered with pastry cream filled with candied fruits, and topped with marzipan (typically green).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Sautéed scallops with lemon butter

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Beef

Roasted beef tenderloin with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Desserts

Malakoff Charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Desserts

Crémets d’Anjou

Egg white beaten with whipped cream and red berries.

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Desserts

Strawberry egg custard

Boiled milk poured over beaten eggs and baked in the oven.

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Sea fish

Brill with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.

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Desserts

Caramel bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Sheep and Goats

Grilled leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Desserts

Coffee and chocolate marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Langoustine risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Game birds

Spit-roasted young partridge

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Cheeses

Tricorne

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.

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