Provençal recipe

About wild duck

Recipe no. 342 Reboul, 1909 Game

Recipe no. 342 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 167.

Reboul's text

In the family of wild ducks there exist numerous varieties. We shall deal here only with the duck properly so called, with the rouge de rivière and the teal, which may undergo the same preparations.

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
aprestato prepare

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 342, page 167. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.