Provençal recipe

Sardines stuffed with white wine

Recipe no. 102 Reboul, 1909 Fish

Recipe no. 102 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 56.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. PreparationScale the sardines and remove the head, then open them by the belly to extract the bone. Arrange them spread out on a board, the open side up, season them and spread on each a spoonful of fish quenelle stuffing.
  2. ArrangingThen pair them up two by two, stuffing against stuffing, and arrange them in a buttered dish.

Reboul's text

Scale them and remove the head, then open them by the belly to extract the bone. Arrange them spread out on a board, the open side up, season them and spread on each a spoonful of fish quenelle stuffing.

Then pair them up two by two, stuffing against stuffing, and arrange them in a buttered dish.

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
escaumato scale
levato remove the bone
farçostuffing
platbuttered dish

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 102, page 56. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.