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.
| Provençal | English |
|---|---|
| becasso | woodcock |
| rousti | to roast |
| sàlmi | salmis |
| vuida | to 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.