Normandy birth and heart that I remained (despite my loose and tearing abandonment of Normandy there are nearly fifteen years) could pass on a traditional wonderful opportunity to honor him.
Know (and I speak without bias because my veins are bathed in half Breton blood) until today, in many parts of France are you touts the Breton cider, as the only true and authentic, it makes me chuckle. This is almost as if lon guarantee you authenticity of a pie chart of the Loire Valley or the Nord-Pas de Calais.
No, I'm not going to make a long argumentative advocacy, rest assured, I'll just give you a figure (which loccurrence is a number): Country dAuge the sole, that is to say a small core of Normandy he fact that covers roughly only a third of the department of Calvados, in this solo Country dAuge therefore, in the nineteenth century, no not list 10, not 50, not 100, not 500, but nearly 600 different varieties of apples .
No, you're not dreaming, 600 different varieties of apples in the only Country dAuge. So the home of cider, behold, nen displease some Britons bad faith, this is indeed Normandy. A region that has devoted a cult and expertise with apple such as Burgundy or Bordeaux have devoted a cult to the vine. But the Normans did not really know how to sell and are hardly champions of advertising, an area where I want to recognize a form of local superiority in Brittany.
Yes, 600 varieties of apples, many of which have disappeared or this is like. With the mistletoe, storms, chainsaws and this mania of the twentieth century to believe that he knew everything better than ten centuries preceding washed, which had established, enhanced and perpetuated a system that had proven over a thousand years.
Yes, when I returned to Normandy, often pinches my heart when I see these huge areas dedicated to the god Productivity, a god who is angry long with the gods Quality and Taste. These huge areas where traditional pastures have disappeared planted with apple trees tall stems under which grazed cows. These new surfaces planted with apple trees at low, populated by mini-tractors and insecticide treatment of cylinders, cones dripping all well calibrated, yellow plums and as tasteless as hosts, two or three varieties, no more, varieties of English ! Ouch! That i hurt my Normandy and its ancestral know-how in apple!
Yes, an apple a real apple jentends it has taste (sometimes even tonic), it rarely exceeds 5 cm in diameter, is never brilliant, even less often symmetrical and this is corrupt and full dimperfections. A real apple, like any fruit native to temperate regions of the globe, it has a seasonal and it does not occur all year. This is also why the 600 varieties of Country dAuge.
This allowed scamper flowering on the longest possible period in the spring to get to go through devastating late frosts for apple blossoms and also scamper maturity in July for apples called "July apples" until the variety called "Christmas fields "and whose name speaks for itself.
Dailleurs, jen conclude this long digression, by stipulating that the slang or patois word for cider in the Pays dAuge is the word "bedan" moon of local stars among the 600 listed varieties and was renowned for flavor which gave Cider.
This is what quexprime but shorter and less painful way Keda Black, who cleverly center his work on the varieties. Of course it is the current varieties quon most frequently found on the market, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Jonagold or other Boskoop, of all heresies of nature born of Anglo-Saxon lands or the Netherlands, but good, you have to do with what has quon
The author therefore delivers us sweet varied recipes (mostly), salty (some) around the apple (much) or cider (a little). For the same apple variety, we give you recipes where it is used optimally (flavor for cooking, etc.) and what variety it may possibly be replaced. I'm really excited about this attempt to restore its credentials to a fruit quon does not celebrate or too little at fair value.
So these are ambitious enough revenue. That says "ambitious" tells "not especially suited to beginner (s)." A book that you will succeed all the better so you have a little experience in pastry. This is both the strength and weakness in my opinion this book. Rather elaborate recipes that give excellent results but are of relatively long stroke and require some logistics. Without me is nothing has nothing you say.
Surely you will positively surprise your guests with these (about) seventy recipes (jen've tried a few that met Mount) but tell you that this is not just the kitchen for people in a hurry. Aside from this small problem that can prove troublesome with the pace of life today, I havent but good to say about this book very beautiful object, aesthetically very successful and graphically, with illustrations and photographs of quality.
So I warmly thank the Marabout editions and lopération Mass Goodreads Review Mount revealed that this delicious book. But this is obviously small quun think high to a grasshopper, that is to say, very little.
