Provençal recipe

About thrush

Recipe no. 349 Reboul, 1909 Game

Recipe no. 349 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 169.

Reboul's text

There are a great number of species of thrush; the most renowned are those of the Alps, called juniper thrush.

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
tourdrethrush
genèbrejuniper

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 349, page 169. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.