The French words to say it: Pastry Making
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"For those who are familiar with French and who enjoy making pastry, The French Words to Say it: Pastry Making is a brilliant concept. Not only are there 30 tasty French dessert recipes—from marble cake (marbre) to the Yule log (buche de Noel), aniseed cookies (biscuits a l'anis) to crepe Suzette—but concise and topical lessons in the French language. [...]
"The theory behind the book is that it is easier to learn a foreign language in a real-life situation rather than from a class or a traditional grammar book. [...]
"For those who don't know much about the French language, this book could be quite useful as an inexpensive French pastry cookbook. [...] It's the perfect book for helping someone make a dessert spread for Bastille Day or a French-themed dinner party. [...] "
Reviewed by Sarah White
Learn French the tastiest way.
Recipes are classified according to the French
language difficulties: the shorter the recipes, the easier (...most
time).
They are presented this way:
1 - The recipe and its translation
English Version
Cherry Clafouti
Time 10 + 40
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups cherries
Directions
Preheat the oven at 375°F.
In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light.
Beat in eggs until thoroughly blended.
Add flour and salt. Beat until the mixture is smooth.
Lightly butter a quiche pan.
Pour half the batter into the pan. Sprinkle with 1 cup cherries.
Pour the second half of batter into pan, sprinkle the second cup cherries.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Insert a knife blade in center. If it comes out clean, take out the
clafouti. Otherwise, leave for additional 5 to 10 minutes, depending
on how much the blade is moist.
Serve warm or lukewarm.
Mind the stones!
French Version
Clafouti aux cerises
Temps 10 + 40
Ingrédients
125 g de beurre à température ambiante
120 g de sucre semoule
4 oeufs
150 g de farine
sel
500 g de cerises
Préparation
Préchauffer le four à 195°C.
Dans un grand saladier, fouetter le beurre et le sucre jusqu'à ce que
le mélange blanchisse.
Ajouter les oeufs et battre jusqu'à ce que le mélange soit homogène.
Ajouter la farine et le sel. Fouetter pour obtenir un mélange onctueux.
Beurrer légèrement un plat à quiche.
Verser la moitié de la préparation dans le plat. Répartir la moitié
des cerises.
Verser le reste de l'appareil dans le moule et répartir le reste des
cerises.
Cuire 40 minutes. Plonger la lame d'un couteau au milieu. Quand elle
ressort sèche, sortir le clafouti. Sinon, laisser cuire 5 à 10 minutes,
selon le degré d'humidité de la lame.
Servir chaud ou tiède.
Attention aux noyaux!
2 - Notes and Exercises appear below most recipes.
The French verb is given in the infinitive and in
the 5 forms that allow to reconstruct its whole conjugation.
A French verb
Blanchir
Je blanchis, nous blanchissons, je blanchirai, blanchi, que je blanchisse.
Certaines banques blanchissent l'argent sale:
elles cachent son origine frauduleuse.
Do not mistake le blanchissement (du linge,
des cheveux) for le blanchiment (de l'argent,
des métaux).
Langue française
Les deux orthographes, un clafouti et un clafoutis, sont acceptées.
Exercices
1 – Expliquer la conjugaison “blanchisse”.
2 – Onctueux : chercher des mots de la
même famille.
3 – Quelle différence y-a-t'il entre un plat à quiche et un plat de
quiche?
3 - The answers to the exercises are found at the end of
the book; they are followed by exercises of/on vocabulary. (Pastry
making phrases appear in numerous funny French phrases.)
Example:
Quand vous comptez quelque chose à la louche:
vous comptez par louchée
vous comptez approximativement
vous ne comptez pas
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