Provençal recipe

Mocha parfait

Recipe no. 581 Reboul, 1909 Ice

Recipe no. 581 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 256.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Coffee syrupMelt the sugar with the strong coffee infusion, heat until boiling.
  2. SabayonPour over the egg yolks, working with the whisk.
  3. FinishingProceed as for the vanilla parfait.

Reboul's text

Melt 250 grams of sugar with a glass of strong good coffee infusion, heat until boiling and pour it, working with the whisk, over 10 egg yolks.

Proceed for the rest as for the vanilla parfait.

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
cafècoffee
fouitwhisk

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 581, page 256. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.