Provençal recipe

Pigeon financiere

Recipe no. 621 Reboul, 1909 Preserve

Recipe no. 621 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 269.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Cooking the pigeonCook the pigeon in butter in a saucepan and let it cool.
  2. Canning with garnishPut into the can with a saucy financiere garnish, solder and give 2 hours of boiling.

Reboul's text

The pigeon, cooked in butter in a saucepan and nearly cooled, is put into the can with a saucy financiere garnish; the can soldered, pass it 2 hours at the boil.

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
pijounpigeon
burrebutter
casseirolosaucepan
bouiboiling

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 621, page 269. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.