Provençal recipe

Pigeon with olives

Recipe no. 324 Reboul, 1909 Pigeon and duck

Recipe no. 324 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 159.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Cooking with olivesCook the pigeon as above, adding, lastly, a spoonful of coulis sauce and 2 dozen olives, which you will have blanched after pitting them.

Reboul's text

Cook the pigeon as above, adding, lastly, a spoonful of coulis sauce and 2 dozen olives, which you will have blanched after pitting them.

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
couirecook
óulivoolives
blanquejablanch
meseiounpit
cuieradospoonful

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 324, page 159. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.