Provençal recipe

About plover and lapwing

Recipe no. 348 Reboul, 1909 Game

Recipe no. 348 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 169.

Reboul's text

The plover and the lapwing are two birds of passage that differ little in taste; the latter is nonetheless clearly inferior, in spite of the proverb.

Give them the same preparations as woodcock. They too are not drawn, and are hardly served except roasted or in salmis.

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
becassowoodcock
roustito roast
sàlmisalmis
vuidato draw

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 348, page 169. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.