Recipe no. 357 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 173.
Preparation
- Prepare the larkPrepared like thrush: roasted, in salmis or in croustade.
Reboul's text
The lark, better known under that name, is prepared the same way as thrush: roasted, in salmis and in croustade.
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.
| Provençal | English |
|---|---|
| apresta | to prepare |
| rousti | to roast |
| sàlmi | salmis |
Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 357, page 173. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.