Recipe no. 353 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 171.
Ingredients
- thrushes
- bacon fat
Preparation
- PreparePluck and singe the thrushes. Bard with bacon fat.
- Roast on the spitCook on the spit before a very fierce fire, with a few slices of bread underneath to catch the juices.
- FinishSalt after 8 to 10 minutes and take off the spit.
Reboul's text
Well plucked and singed, barded with bacon fat, they are cooked on the spit before a very fierce fire, with a few slices of bread underneath to catch the droppings; they are salted and taken off the spit 8 to 10 minutes later.
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 |
|---|---|
| besuscla | to singe |
| couire | to roast on the spit |
| sala | to salt |
Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 353, page 171. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.