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Pêches à la Condé
Poached peach halves keep their shape above vanilla-scented rice, candied fruit, and glossy apricot-Kirsch syrup, with a second Condé arrangement of Génoise sponge roundels and crisp rice croquettes.
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Pêches à la Cussy
Poached peach halves rise over fruit-filled almond macaroons beneath a perfectly white coat of Italian meringue, dried just enough to set, with bright Kirsch apricot sauce passed at the table.
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Pêches Flambées
Pêches Flambées teaches the quiet discipline behind a dramatic finish: poach the fruit gently, glaze it lightly, warm the kirsch properly, then let one brief blue flame perfume the table.
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Pêches Gratinées
Pêches Gratinées turn poached peach halves, a firm apple bed, and Pralin à Condé into one generous fruit gratin, lightly bronzed above and spoon-soft beneath.
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Pêches Maintenon
Pêches Maintenon turns a fully cooled biscuit dome into celebration architecture: frangipane and candied fruit within, piped meringue outside, and vanilla-poached peach halves standing generously around it.
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Pêches à la Vanille
Pêches à la Vanille turn ripe fruit, a clear vanilla syrup, and cold cream into a poised make-ahead dessert, with arrowroot giving the pale pink sauce just enough body to cling.
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Poires à la Condé
Poires à la Condé turns careful knife work into a generous whole: vanilla-poached pears standing on creamy sweet rice, bright with candied fruit and a glossy Kirsch-apricot finish.
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Poires à l’Impératrice
Vanilla-poached pear quarters disappear between two tender layers of almond-rich rice, then crushed macaroons and melted butter meet fierce top heat for a deeply bronzed gratin.
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Poires à la Parisienne
Poires à la Parisienne teaches disciplined assembly: kirsch-soaked Génoise, vanilla rice, upright syrup-poached pears, and ridged meringue, finished with apricot gloss and a ruby border of preserved cherries.
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Poires à la Sultane
Poires à la Sultane crowns pistachio-flecked vanilla rice with syrup-poached pears inside a bronzed meringued Génoise border, then sends warm almond-milk butter syrup to the table apart, exactly where it belongs.
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Timbale de Poires à la Valenciennes
A yeast-raised savarin becomes an edible timbale, its thick golden shell glazed and banded with sugar and pistachio, then filled with buttery apricot-bound pears and served with kirsch-apricot sauce.
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Apples with Butter
Whole russet apples, held intact by a two-minute parboil, then baked in vanilla syrup and settled on glazed brioche croûtons, their hollows melting with brandy butter beneath an apricot-bright glaze.
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Pommes à la Bonne-Femme
Four russet apples, scored, cored, and packed with butter and sugar, bake gently until their skins wrinkle and the dish catches a light syrup. The score is small; it decides everything.
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Pommes en Charlotte
Pommes en Charlotte is Apple Charlotte (No. 2436) under its French title: stiff russet-apple purée enclosed by buttered bread, baked bronze, and unmoulded warm so the case holds its proud dome.
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Pommes à la Châtelaine
Tender baked apples hold a sharp cherry and apricot salpicon beneath a thin frangipane veil, then meet fierce heat until biscuit and macaroon crumbs bronze into the crisp crown that makes the dish.
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Pommes à la Chevreuse
Firm vanilla-scented semolina, syruped apple quarters, and apricot-bound candied fruit disappear beneath a pale-gold meringue dome, finished with pistachio, angelica, and one rosy apple for a true celebration.
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Pommes à la Condé
Four whole apples, vanilla-poached until tender but intact, sit proudly on sweet Condé rice beneath a Kirsch-apricot gloss, with jewel-red cherries and green angelica marking the classical garnish.
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Pommes Gratinées
Vanilla-poached apple quarters, dense apple marmalade, and a thin cap of Pralin (No. 2352): Pommes Gratinées teaches the quiet oven discipline of drying first and colouring second.
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Pommes Meringuées
Vanilla-poached apples, a firm bed of stewed apple, and a domed meringue shell browned to biscuit gold: a grand entremets reduced to one dish, four plates, and an ordinary home oven.
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Pommes à la Moscovite
Firm-poached apple cases hold their own concentrated purée beneath a kümmel-scented Soufflé, rising tender and pale gold in an ordinary oven. Keep the walls firm, or the dessert loses its lift.
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Pommes à la Parisienne
Upright syrup-poached apples circle a vanilla rice dome on kirsch-soaked Génoise, laced with baked meringue and brushed with apricot glaze as they leave the oven.
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Pommes à la Portugaise
Poached apple cases hold orange-scented crème frangipane, almond macaroon crumbs, and Curaçao-plumped currants, then bake on a tender semolina base beneath a shining red-currant glaze.
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Pommes Irène
Poached apple cases hide vanilla-plum ice beneath a Kirsch-scented crown of Meringue à l’Italienne, colored in seconds so the shell stays tender, the center frozen, and the table ready.
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Célestine Omelet
Two tender sweet omelets, apricot at the heart and apple around it, rolled into one generous dessert and sugared under the broiler. The outer layer must stay loose enough to embrace the first.
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