Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:

> My comments are as correct and appropriately placed as the subject
> itself. Variations on a theme.

Hey, Caligula, I do not think gigot à la boulangère is really any kind
of variation on a hash theme, but it does bear discussion on its own
terms. I think that the Escoffier recipe you seem to have in mind is a
refined version of a simpler peasant dish which was brought to the
baker's on Saturday and cooked in the still hot bread oven to be ready
on Sunday. So, all the ingredients had to be there - and cooked - at
the same time. I do not think the peasants congregated at the baker's
in the middle of the night to add potatoes. A similar dish in this
sense is the Alsatian baeckofe.

Victor