Provençal recipe

Peaches

Recipe no. 643 Reboul, 1909 Preserve

Recipe no. 643 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 274.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Prepare the peachesPeel and cut in two or in four. Pack into tins or jars.
  2. Cook in a water bathCover with a syrup at 28 degrees. Have them sealed and give 10 minutes of boiling in a water bath.

Reboul's text

The yellow peach is the one best suited to preserving.

Peeled and cut in two or in four, pack them into tins or jars, covered with a syrup at 28 degrees.

Have them sealed, and give 10 minutes of boiling in a water bath.

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
pecatpeach
siropsyrup
bouiboiling
ban-marìowater bath

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 643, page 274. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.