Provençal recipe

Apricot compote

Recipe no. 508 Reboul, 1909 Pantry

Recipe no. 508 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 230.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Cook as for plumsProceed as for plum compote.
  2. Prepare the apricotsHalve the apricots or leave them whole after removing the stone.

Reboul's text

Made like the plum one; the apricots are either halved or left whole, after the stone has been removed.

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
aubricotapricots
meseiounstone

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 508, page 230. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.