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butter croissants Recipes :
Garlic butter for snails

Recipes : Garlic butter for snails
250g butter 12g salt 3g ground white pepper 2 cloves of garlic, cored, crushed and finely chopped 1 shallot finely c...
Bechamel Sauce

Recipes : Bechamel Sauce
Recipe for a litre of finished sauce: 80g butter 80g plain flour 1 litre full fat milk salt, pepper and a pinch of...
Banana cake

Recipes : Banana cake
For 6 guests : 200 g ripe bananas 200 g of flour, sieved 200 g of caster sugar 70 g of butter 2 eggs the juice of ...
Hollandaise Sauce

Recipes : Hollandaise Sauce
Hollandaise (sauce) : for asparagus, poached fish, artichoke hearts,... Ingredients for this sauce : 3 eggyolks 8 c...
Flaky pastry

Recipes : Flaky pastry
Ingredients : 250 g (8 to 9 oz) wheat flour 200 g (7 oz) butter 1/10 liter (3 to 4 fl oz) water 5 g (1 small traspoo...
Madeleine

Recipes : Madeleine
Makes 1 dozen Madeleine: 3 eggs 50 g of milk 200 g of caster sugar 1 sachet or dose of vanilla sugar 250 g of flo...
Maltese Sauce

Recipes : Maltese Sauce
Excellent just warm sauce for warm starters like asparagus Ingredients : 2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) of orange juice +...
bearnaise Sauce

Recipes : bearnaise Sauce
Bearnaise Sauce for 6 guests : 2 dl of vinegar 1 shallot, very finely chopped 2 tsp of fresh tarragon 2 tsp of fre...
Browned shells Saint-Jaques

Recipes : Browned shells Saint-Jaques
Browned shells Saint-Jacques For 4 persons : 150 g of small mushrooms 8 whole walnuts (St-Jacques) 1/2 liter of dr...
Rolled Omelette

Recipes : Rolled Omelette
This is a basic omelette recipe, have a look at our page about omelettes to find out more on the subject... A nice om...
Meuniere style Sole Fillets

Recipes : Meuniere style Sole Fillets
and its Chicory Tatin Meunière Style Sole Fillets For 6 guests : 12 large sole fillets 600 gr of chicories 100 g...
Pilau Rice

Recipes : Pilau Rice
Pilau Rice 200 gr of long grain rice 1 onion, finely chopped 1 bouquet garni 50 gr of butter 300 gr of the veal sto...
Prunes 'far'

Recipes : Prunes 'far'
6 servings : 24 dry cored prunes 1 liter (1/4 gallon) fat milk 6 eggs 180 grams (1/3-1/2 pound) top quality butter ...
Kouign-Amann

French specialties : Kouign-Amann
Kouign-Amann is a typically regional dessert in the dubious beginning. The first version concerning its origins would b...
Burgundy Snails

French specialties : Burgundy Snails
If Burgundy is known for its vineyards, the Burgundy Snails is without any doubt one of the best ambassadors of the Burg...
mixed flavoured butters

News : mixed flavoured butters
The basic principle is the same in all cases : you must soften the butter and incorporate into it one or several flavour...
The round cake for the Twelfth Night

News : The round cake for the Twelfth Night
This is the oldest cake in history ; we now know that the first ones were made during the neolithic age. They were prepa...
the omelette

News : the omelette
In the Journal of Jean Heroard (1551-1628), doctor of the young future king Louis XIII, we could read : "often, in the a...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste

News : Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook who was active mainly at the turn of the XIXth c...
Festive menus

News : Festive menus
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with f...








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festive menu
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with friends. festive menu
cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more