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sorbet,
288
tarte tatin,
220

Peasant-style split-pea soup,
24

Pecan(s):

meringue layer cake with coffee and chocolate
buttercream,
250
toasted, mocha ice cream with,
291
–92

Pêche(s):

canard aux
,
138
–39
Melba
,
345
salade de fruits de mer aux
,
33
salade de volaille aux
,
32
tarte aux framboises et aux
,
215

Pepper(corns):

cracking,
141
game sauce with,
322
–24
creamy,
323
–24
currant, creamy,
324
steak au poivre,
141
–42

Peppers:

Basque-style sautéed chicken breasts,
124
–25
in green salads,
31
ratatouille,
193
–94

Petits oignons:

glacés
,
181
à la grecque
,
190

Pheasant breasts, sautéed, with juniper,
125
–27

Pigeonneaux aux olives
,
129
–31
grillés
,
131
sautés
,
131

Pilaf, rice,
207

Pineapple sorbet,
288

Pita bread,
341
–42

Plum(s), Italian prune:

Alsatian-style fruit tart,
216
–18
tart,
215

Poached:

chicken with creamy tarragon sauce,
111
–12
mushrooms,
95
pears in port wine,
284
–85
prunes:
in port wine,
285
in wine, pork rib roast with,
163
–65
salmon:
with beurre blanc,
92
–93
with green mayonnaise,
93
–94

Point
,
8
,
91
–92

Point, Fernand,
121
,
122
,
284

Poireaux:

à la crème
,
186
–87
hollandaise ou vinaigrette
,
185

Poires:

au porto
,
284
–85
sorbet aux
,
288
tarte tatin aux
,
220

Pois:

cassés, potage de
,
23
–24
paysan
,
24
petits, pâtes fraîches aux
,
80

Poisson:

fumet de
,
306
–7
glace de
,
310
mousselines de
,
47
–52
coquilles St.-Jacques en surprise
,
51
truite farcie aux deux sauces
,
52
turban de fruits de mer
,
49
–50
soupe de
,
21
–22
terrine de
,
49

Poitrine de boeuf braisée au gingembre et coriandre
,
147
–48

Poivre:

sauce poivrade
,
322
–24
steak au
,
141
–42

Pommes, compote de
,
172

Pommes (de terre):

à la boulangère
,
202
–3
chips
,
200
dauphine
,
203
–4
Elisabeth
,
204
les frites
,
197
–200
gaufrettes
,
199
idéales
,
204
julienne
,
200
pailles et allumettes
,
200
les pommes frites
,
197
–200
Pont-Neuf
,
199
purée de, à l’ail
,
205
rôties
,
204
sautées
,
196
savoyarde
,
202
soufflées
,
199
–200
à la vapeur
,
197

Porc
,
163
–69

côtes de, sauce Robert
,
166
médaillons de:
à la brunoise
,
152
sauce Robert
,
166
rôti de
:
grand-mère
,
165
aux pruneaux
,
163
–65
sauce Robert
,
165

Porcelain ovenproof cookware,
13

Pork,
163
–69

and chicken in a pot,
168
–69
chops with
sauce Robert
,
166
fat, rendering,
125
home-style terrine with prunes,
54
–56
medallions:
with
sauce Robert
,
166
with sautéed root vegetables,
152
roast:
old-fashioned, with carrots and onions,
165
rib roast with wine-poached prunes,
163
–65
with
sauce Robert
,
165
shoulder, in light cassoulet,
167
–68
testing for doneness,
9
see also
Bacon; Ham

Porto:

poires au
,
284
–85
pruneaux au
,
285
sauce
,
319

Port wine:

pears poached in,
284
–85
prunes poached in,
285
sauce,
319

Potages:

au cresson
,
22
–23
et au curry
,
23
de pois cassés
,
23
–24
paysan
,
24
à la roquette
,
23

Potato(es),
196
–205

à la boulangère
,
202
–3
chips,
200
French-fried,
197
–200
thick-cut,
199
waffled,
199
garlic mashed,
205
gratin dauphinois
,
200
–201
julienned,
200
puffed sliced,
199
–200
puffs,
203
–4
with spinach,
204
truffled,
204
roasted,
204
sautéed,
196
Savoyarde,
202
steamed,
197
straws and matchsticks,
200
trimmings, uses for,
198
in vegetable purées,
179
yellow,
198

Potato starch,
6

Potée ma façon
,
168
–69

Pots and pans,
11
–13

cast-iron grill pans,
12
,
144
checklist for,
12
materials for,
13
omelet pans,
12
,
37

Pots de crème:

origin of name,
270
vanilla and coffee (
vanille et café
),
270
–71

Poularde
,
111

pochée à l’estragon
,
111
–12
truffée et farcie
,
108
–10

Poule:

meaning of,
111
au pot
,
113
–15
suprême
,
115

Poulet:

au Champagne
,
121
à la crème
,
120
–21
meaning of,
111
au Riesling
,
119
–21
rôti basquaise
,
125
sauté à la moutarde et au romarin
,
128
sauté à la portugaise
,
118
–19
Vallée d’Auge
,
121
au vinaigre de Xérès
,
121
–22

Poultry,
107
–39

pheasant breasts, sautéed, with juniper,
125
–27
squabs:
grilled, with olive sauce,
131
roast, with olive sauce,
129
–31
sautéed, with olive sauce,
131
techniques:
cutting cooked bird into serving pieces,
114
cutting raw bird into serving pieces,
113
professional test for doneness,
137
roasting,
107
serving small birds,
130
trussing,
133
see also
Chicken; Duck

Poussins:

broiled, with herbs and mustard,
122
–23
grilled or roasted,
123

Poussins:

grillés ou rôtis
,
123
aux herbes et à la moutarde
,
122
–23
meaning of word,
111

Pralin:

crème au beurre pralinée
,
351
crème pâtissière au
,
348
glace pralinée
,
292
granulé
,
357
pâte de
,
356
–57
en poudre
,
357

Praline:

buttercream,
351
granulated,
357
ice cream,
292
marquise Alice,
271
–72
paste,
356
–57
pastry cream,
348
cream puffs or éclairs filled with,
229
in Paris-Brest,
228
–29
powder,
357

Pressure Cooker
(film),
2

Profiteroles,
227

chocolate-dipped,
224
–25
with Grand Marnier,
225
croquembouche
,
227
ice cream–filled,
224

Profiteroles
,
227

au chocolat
,
224
–25
Grand Marnier
,
225
à la glace
,
224

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