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Caneton aux Olives

Chef Juliette

Caneton aux Olives

Burnished Caneton aux Olives teaches the discipline of a short sauce: deepen the fond, braise gently, blanch the olives, and add them only for the final minutes.

Caneton Braisé à l’Orange

Chef Juliette

Caneton Braisé à l’Orange

Whole duckling braised until a spoon parts it, lacquered with its reduced brown sauce, then sharpened at the last moment with orange, lemon, and fine citrus julienne that never returns to the boil.

Caneton aux Petits Pois

Chef Juliette

Caneton aux Petits Pois

Caneton aux Petits Pois brings burnished duckling, salt pork, pearl onions, and spring peas together under a glossy half-glaze, teaching the essential measure of a garnish sauce: enough to coat, never enough to drown.

Pâté Chaud de Caneton

Chef Juliette

Pâté Chaud de Caneton

Underdone duck breast, gratin forcemeat, mushrooms, and truffle rise inside a burnished Charlotte-mould crust, then meet Madeira sauce at the table: the grand hot pie made workable for four.

Ballotines de Caneton

Chef Juliette

Ballotines de Caneton

Ballotines de Caneton turn a boned duckling into eight neat parcels, their silky forcemeat held in its own skin, barely poached in duck stock, then glazed until each one gleams.

Caneton Rouennais

Chef Juliette

Caneton Rouennais

A Rouen duckling roasted pink, its burnished cavity filled with duck liver, unsmoked bacon, onion, parsley, and quatre-épices, the forcemeat barely stiffened before it is worked through a fine sieve.

Aiguillettes de Rouennais à la Bigarrade

Chef Juliette

Aiguillettes de Rouennais à la Bigarrade

Rouen duck breast stays rosy beneath a clear, bitter-orange bigarrade drawn from its own poëling liquor. Twenty minutes, lengthwise carving, and a warm platter turn precise timing into generous dinner-party food.

Aiguillettes de Rouennais aux Cerises

Chef Juliette

Aiguillettes de Rouennais aux Cerises

Bronzed Rouen duck breast, sliced into aiguillettes and veiled with clear Madeira pan liquor, with tart Morello cherries warmed only at the finish so every fruit keeps its shape and bite.

Aiguillettes de Rouennais aux Truffes

Chef Juliette

Aiguillettes de Rouennais aux Truffes

Chambertin-poached black truffles alternate with rosy aiguillettes of butter-poëled duckling, all under the thinnest glossy coat of sauce Rouennaise: a grand dish disciplined by restraint.

Caneton Rouennais au Champagne

Chef Juliette

Caneton Rouennais au Champagne

A butter-poëled Rouen duckling, its savory pan liquor sharpened with dry Champagne and rounded by veal stock, teaches the discipline of reduction: concentrate the wine, preserve the fond, then strain and degrease.

Caneton Rouennais en Chemise

Chef Juliette

Caneton Rouennais en Chemise

A whole Rouen duckling, liver-stuffed and sealed before a gentle stock poach, arrives taut-skinned and full of its own juices, with Sauce Rouennaise beside it. The shirt does the work, and the seal decides everything.

Caneton Rouennais au Porto

Chef Juliette

Caneton Rouennais au Porto

A young Rouen duckling cooks en casserole in butter alone, then a measured Port reduction joins clear duck gravy, with arrowroot preserving its gloss and the bird served at the instant it is just done.

Caneton Rouennais à la Presse

Chef Juliette

Caneton Rouennais à la Presse

Twenty minutes in a fierce oven, then the breast is sliced while the carcass gives its last richness to red wine. Gentle heat turns those collops glossy, never boiled and never delayed.

Caneton Farci à la Rouennaise

Chef Juliette

Caneton Farci à la Rouennaise

Caneton Farci à la Rouennaise turns one fiercely roasted duckling into a composed feast: rosy breast, grilled legs, liver forcemeat, and Sauce Rouennaise deepened with pressed carcass juices.

Salmis De Caneton à la Rouennaise

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Salmis De Caneton à la Rouennaise

Salmis de Caneton à la Rouennaise turns fierce heat and exact carving into a swift service of thirty aiguillettes, pressed red-wine jus, crisped legs, and buttered glaze, pulled at the first curl.

Soufflé de Caneton Rouennais

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Soufflé de Caneton Rouennais

A whole duckling becomes its own serving case, filled with duck liver and foie gras mousseline, poached gently, then surrounded with tartlets and warm suprême beside glossy Rouennaise sauce.

Caneton à la Cuiller

Chef Juliette

Caneton à la Cuiller

Caneton à la Cuiller is the rare Rouen duckling braised to surrender: Madeira-dark liquor, flesh tender enough for a spoon, and a cold aspic coat that makes tomorrow's table effortless.

Caneton Glacé aux Mandarines

Chef Juliette

Caneton Glacé aux Mandarines

Caneton glacé aux mandarines arrives cold and gleaming: butter-poëled duck under a fine aspic coat, ringed with citrus cups of liver mousse and jewel-clear timbales, a celebration dish built by patience, not ceremony.

Caneton Glacé aux Cerises

Chef Juliette

Caneton Glacé aux Cerises

A whole duckling, roasted rosy and rebuilt cold, holds foie gras mousse beneath brown chaud-froid collops, black truffle, and Bordeaux-poached Morello cherries in gleaming duck aspic.

Aiguillettes de Canetons à l’Écarlate

Chef Juliette

Aiguillettes de Canetons à l’Écarlate

Cold duckling aiguillettes lacquered with brown chaud-froid, scarlet tongue, truffle, and clear aspic, laid in strict alternation over a silken duck mousse that must set firm before the pattern begins.

Mousse et Mousselines de Caneton Rouennais

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Mousse et Mousselines de Caneton Rouennais

Mousse et Mousselines de Caneton Rouennais turn duckling into a fine, cold-built emulsion, gently poached until tender, then sharpened with Sauce Bigarrade and sweet-bitter orange.

Mousse de Caneton Rouennais

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Mousse de Caneton Rouennais

Mousse de Caneton Rouennais turns cold duck mousseline into one generous, sliceable form, gently set in a bain-marie. Keep the emulsion cold and the cooking quiet, and four guests receive it together.

Soufflé Froid de Caneton à l’Orange

Chef Juliette

Soufflé Froid de Caneton à l’Orange

Soufflé Froid de Caneton à l’Orange uses every scrap of duck meat for a silken cold mousse, with raw-skinned orange sections and clear Seville orange aspic carrying curaçao’s bitter perfume.

Timbale de Caneton à la Voisin

Chef Juliette

Timbale de Caneton à la Voisin

A cold salmis built layer by layer: rosy duck breast, truffle, glossy sauce, and clear aspic held until each setting is firm, then unmolded for a generous make-ahead table.

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