Provençal recipe

Royal icing

Recipe no. 489 Reboul, 1909 Pastry

Recipe no. 489 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 223.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Preparing the royal icingPut into a small bowl 2 egg whites and 200 grams of caster sugar; work a few minutes with a wooden spoon, and you obtain a smooth, flowing paste. This paste is spread in a thin layer over the objects to be iced.

Reboul's text

Put into a small bowl 2 egg whites and 200 grams of caster sugar; work a few minutes with a wooden spoon, and you obtain a smooth, flowing paste. This paste is spread in a thin layer over the objects to be iced.

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
sucresugar
cuiéwooden spoon
pastpaste

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 489, page 223. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.