Provençal recipe

Vespétro

Recipe no. 565 Reboul, 1909 Liqueur

Recipe no. 565 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 250.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Crush the seedsTake 15 grams of angelica seed, the same amount of coriander and a little less of anise, then crush these seeds.
  2. Set to infusePut the seeds in a bottle with a litre of brandy, cork and let infuse eight days at a gentle temperature.
  3. Filter and sweetenFilter, then add half a litre of 38-degree syrup.

Reboul's text

Take 15 grams of angelica seed, the same amount of coriander and a little less of anise; crush these seeds, put them in a bottle with a litre of brandy, cork and let infuse eight days at a gentle temperature. Then filter and add half a litre of 38-degree syrup.

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
granoseed
grano-de-boudincoriander
anisanise
brigaiato crush
aigo-ardèntbrandy
enfusato infuse
siropsyrup

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 565, page 250. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.