Provençal recipe

Sorrel

Recipe no. 599 Reboul, 1909 Preserve

Recipe no. 599 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 263.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Cooking the sorrelMelt the sorrel down in a saucepan with only a few glasses of water and a handful of coarse salt.
  2. Passing through the sievePass through a sieve after draining it.
  3. Canning and cookingPut into cans and give, as for spinach, two hours of boiling in the water bath.

Reboul's text

Melt it down in a saucepan with only a few glasses of water and a handful of coarse salt; then, passed through a sieve after draining it, put it into cans to which you give, as for spinach, 2 hours 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
agradellosorrel
casseirolosaucepan
aigowater
saucoarse salt
sedassieve
bouiboiling

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 599, page 263. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.