Provençal recipe

Bain-marie custard in small pots

Recipe no. 461 Reboul, 1909 Pastry

Recipe no. 461 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 213.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Preparing the small potsFor this purpose there are porcelain pots shaped roughly like a cup. Fill them with a custard prepared as above, but with only 2 whole eggs and 8 yolks. Bake as the previous recipe.

Reboul's text

For this purpose there are porcelain pots shaped roughly like a cup. Fill them with a custard prepared as above, but with only 2 whole eggs and 8 yolks. Bake as the previous recipe.

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
pourcelanoporcelain
crèmocustard
iòueggs
jauneyolks
couiesounbaking
ban-marìobain-marie

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 461, page 213. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.