Provençal recipe

Gascon-style turnip puree soup

Recipe no. 21 Reboul, 1909 Soup

Recipe no. 21 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 18.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. BrowningPeel a dozen good, tender turnips, slice them, put them into a saucepan with 2 spoonfuls of goose fat; brown over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, season with salt and pepper, moisten with water or broth and let cook.
  2. StrainingThen strain through a sieve, keep warm and, just before serving, pour into the tureen over slices of bread.

Reboul's text

Peel a dozen good, tender turnips, slice them, put them into a saucepan with 2 spoonfuls of goose fat; brown over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, season with salt and pepper, moisten with water or broth and let cook;

then strain through a sieve, keep warm and, just before serving, pour into the tureen over slices of bread.

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
nabetturnips
pelucapeel
aprimaslice
casseirolosaucepan
graissogoose fat
revenibrown
fiòheat
boulegastir
cuiéspoon
pebrepepper

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 21, page 18. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.