Victor Sack wrote:
> 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.

Will you share your recipe please, Victor?