famous cakes
![]() | Recipes : Little Mussel Cakes Little Mussel Cakes recipe for 8 guests: 2 lt of mussels, clean 1 large sweet onion 5 dl of dry white wine 5 dl of ... |
![]() | Recipes : Tarte Tatin This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ... |
![]() | Recipes : Chocolate Fondant Makes 8 individual cakes 200 g of dark chocolaet, 60% 8 squares of the same chocolate 220 g of butter 160 g of cast... |
![]() | Recipes : Confectioner's custard This custard is a basis for numerous desserts like cakes, tarts, soufflés etc... Serving for a large bowl of confecti... |
![]() | Recipes : Tapenade Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N... |
![]() | Recipes : Chocolate Fondue This recipe was added onto the list of our restaurant "La Campagne Lotoise" in 1994. We were serving it with "madeleines... |
![]() | Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven... |
![]() | Recipes : Veal chops “Pojarski” There is a cult recipe from the French gastronomy : veal chops “Pojarski”.This recipe comes in direct line from Russian ... |
![]() | Recipes : Beurre Blanc It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui... |
![]() | Recipes : Chantilly cream We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven... |
![]() French specialties : Muscadet The Muscadet wine is a subtle wine which is coming from type of vine "Melon" of Burgundian origin, which was introduced ... |
![]() French specialties : Nancy Macaroon If there is a city in Lorraine which deserves a little break, it is indeed Nancy and its splendid architectural sets. Na... |
![]() | News : The 'Madeleine' story Stanislas, king of Poland used to have, as a second home, the castle of Commercy, in a small town of the Lorraine region... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | News : A nice week-end in Lyon As we do from time to time during the year, direction Lyon to pay a visit to some beloved friends. Her,'Speedy' Brigitt... |
![]() | News : The Lobster à l'américaine Story We are now nearly fully sure of the validity of the "à l'américaine" name of this recipe, to the contrary of the "à l'ar... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | News : Queen Tomato's paradise Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ... |
![]() | News : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | News : A so nice journey It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r... |
![]() | News : A few days in Burgundy As usual during this calamitous August, we leave Paris under the rain to Val de Mercy. I know pretty well this region be... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
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I'm doing a french project on chocolate lava cakes, but can't seem to find the origin?? Can anyone help me out here?! th...


































