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Boudins Noirs

Chef Juliette

Boudins Noirs

Boudin noir proves charcuterie is a matter of temperature, not mystery: pork blood, fat, cream, and onion held below a simmer, then scored and grilled gently beside silken potato purée.

Boudins Noirs à l’Anglaise

Chef Juliette

Boudins Noirs à l’Anglaise

Firm consommé-cooked rice gives these boudins noirs their English-fashion character: gently poached, cooled, ciselés, and grilled until bronzed, with tart apple purée beside them to answer every rich bite.

Boudins Noirs à la Flamande

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Boudins Noirs à la Flamande

Boudins Noirs à la Flamande teach the northern French appetite for sweet against savoury: tender blood sausage perfumed with fruit, poached without a tremor, then gently grilled and spooned with warm sugared apple sauce.

Crépinettes Truffées

Chef Juliette

Crépinettes Truffées

Eight butter-bronzed crépinettes gathered around glossy Périgueux sauce, their truffled pork kept succulent by melting caul, with cream-rich potato purée alongside. A grand-kitchen composition brought intact to the home table.

Crépinettes à la Cendrillon

Chef Juliette

Crépinettes à la Cendrillon

Truffled pork crépinettes, sealed in all-butter pâte feuilletée and baked until deeply gilded, preserve the hearth’s clever idea: hold every juice close, let the pastry bronze, and serve them generously.

Saucisses Anglaises

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Saucisses Anglaises

Cambridge pork sausages teach the discipline of gentle pan heat: brown them slowly beside crisp bacon, finish with real butter, and keep their bold seasoning savory rather than scorched.

Saucisses au Vin Blanc

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Saucisses au Vin Blanc

Eight pork sausages gently poached in butter and laid over crisp croûtes, with white wine reduced into demi-glace and mounted off heat. Reduce the wine properly and the whole pan comes into focus.

Saucisses de Francfort et de Strasbourg

Chef Juliette

Saucisses de Francfort et de Strasbourg

Two fine smoked sausages, poached below a boil for ten minutes and no longer, with apple sauce and horseradish beside them, or choucroute beneath: restraint is the entire technique.

Hot Ham—its preparation

Chef Juliette

Hot Ham—its preparation

Jambon chaud teaches restraint: soak out excess salt, poach without boiling, then let Madeira and demi-glace turn the cured ham glossy, savory, and generous enough for the center of a holiday table.

Jambon à la Chanoinesse

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Jambon à la Chanoinesse

Poached ham braised in white wine, broad noodles gathered with butter and Soubise, black truffle cut to a fine julienne, and a sauce made from every savory drop in the pot.

Jambon à la Choucroûte

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Jambon à la Choucroûte

Jambon à la Choucroûte brings poached ham, wine-braised sauerkraut, and potatoes à l’anglaise together with a glossy Rhine-wine half-glaze, an Alsatian lesson in timing three plain preparations to arrive as one feast.

Jambon à la Maillot

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Jambon à la Maillot

Poached, braised, and lacquered at the last moment, Jambon à la Maillot gathers turned roots, glazed onions, lettuce, peas, and beans around one gleaming ham, with its gravy properly served apart.

Jambon à la Prague sous la Cendre

Chef Juliette

Jambon à la Prague sous la Cendre

Smoked Prague ham sealed in sturdy pâte à pâté, baked until burnished, then injected with Port through the crust and served with a light buttered glaze: ceremony with sound technique beneath it.

Jambon de Prague à la Metternich

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Jambon de Prague à la Metternich

Prague ham emerges juicy from its flour paste shell, then meets foie gras, black truffle, buttered asparagus tips, and glossy Madeira sauce, a grand service reduced cleanly to four plates.

Jambon de Prague à la Norfolk

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Jambon de Prague à la Norfolk

A burnished slice of Prague ham in pastry, a tender collop of veal sweetbread, peas à la paysanne, and one lucid braising liquor: a composed classical main made workable for four.

Various Garnishes for Braised Ham

Chef Juliette

Various Garnishes for Braised Ham

One braised ham, many proper companions: buttered spinach, broad beans, tender braised greens, peas à la paysanne, pasta, or purée, all gathered by a glossy demi-glace au Madère.

Jambon Soufflé

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Jambon Soufflé

Jambon soufflé turns a carved ham into its own airy reconstruction: smooth ham forcemeat folded with egg whites, shaped back on the end bone, then gently poached until risen and sliceable.

Soufflés au Jambon

Chef Juliette

Soufflés au Jambon

Soufflés au Jambon take two classical paths: cooked ham for the lightest rise, raw-ham mousseline for steadier service, both brought home as one generous golden dish for four.

The Preparation of the Soufflé with Cooked Ham

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The Preparation of the Soufflé with Cooked Ham

Soufflé de jambon cuit turns lean ham, Béchamel, yolks, and stiffly beaten whites into a tall, bronzed main whose fine, savory crumb proves that lifting a dense base is all in the fold.

The Preparation of the Soufflé with Raw Ham

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The Preparation of the Soufflé with Raw Ham

Soufflé de jambon cru rises on cold mousseline forcemeat and firm egg whites, teaching the essential rule of fine forcemeat: preserve the emulsion, then protect the air all the way to the table.

Soufflé de Jambon Alexandra

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Soufflé de Jambon Alexandra

Soufflé de Jambon Alexandra rises around a green heart of buttered asparagus, with ham in every tender spoonful and one dark truffle slice on its dome. Fold gently, bake steadily, and serve without delay.

Soufflé de Jambon Carmen

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Soufflé de Jambon Carmen

Rosy with tomato and red pepper, rich with finely cut ham, this savoury soufflé teaches the discipline behind every rise: reduce the purée until dry, then fold gently and bake without hesitation.

Soufflé de Jambon Gastronome

Chef Juliette

Soufflé de Jambon Gastronome

Soufflé de Jambon Gastronome rises around tender ham, buttered egg noodles, and black truffle, a generous savory soufflé whose one law is simple: fold lightly, layer quickly, and bake without delay.

Soufflé de Jambon Milanaise

Chef Juliette

Soufflé de Jambon Milanaise

Soufflé de Jambon Milanaise rises around layers of macaroni, ham, tongue, mushroom, and truffle, then takes a crisp crown of butter-fried macaroni and cheese, rich, poised, and ready for immediate serving.

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