Provençal recipe

Mirabelle plums

Recipe no. 638 Reboul, 1909 Preserve

Recipe no. 638 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 273.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Select and packPick the mirabelle plums not too ripe and put them into tins or jars.
  2. Cook in a water bathCover with a syrup at 28 degrees and give 3 minutes of boiling.

Reboul's text

Picked not too ripe, put into tins or jars, cover with a syrup at 28 degrees, and give 3 minutes of boiling.

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
mirabellomirabelle plum
siropsyrup
bouiboiling

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 638, page 273. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.