Provençal recipe

Duck with olives

Recipe no. 325 Reboul, 1909 Pigeon and duck

Recipe no. 325 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 159.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Preparing according to ageDuck is prepared like pigeon when it is young. When it is old it must be braised.

Reboul's text

Duck is prepared like pigeon when it is young. When it is old it must be braised.

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
canardduck
pijounpigeon
aprestaprepare
brasejabraise

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 325, page 159. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.