Provençal recipe

Brill with white wine

Recipe no. 113 Reboul, 1909 Fish

Recipe no. 113 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 59.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Preparation and cookingClean the brill the same way as above, butter the bottom of a large saute pan, put carrots and onions in slices, season, add half a bottle of white wine, cover with a buttered paper and cook in the oven for the time needed, which is determined by the size of the fish.

Reboul's text

Clean it the same way as above, butter the bottom of a large saute pan, put carrots and onions in slices, season, add half a bottle of white wine, cover with a buttered paper and cook in the oven for the time needed, which is determined by the size of the fish.

The same preparations given for brill can be applied to turbot, which resembles it in many respects. Flounder and plaice, which are also a similar species, may be prepared the same way.

Small Provençal glossary for this recipe

Reboul writes in French: no Provençal word appears in this recipe, apart from the dish's name itself. The table below gives the Provençal equivalents of the words used, in mistralian spelling, translated by Lingua Nostra. Each form is attested in our Provençal-English dictionary; click to open the entry.

ProvençalEnglish
roumbbrill
garrotocarrots
ceboonions
vinwhite wine
papiébuttered paper
couiesounoven cooking

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 113, page 59. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.