Cooked à l’ancienne, triangular stuffed pastry, served hot as a starter, containing a salpicon of truffles, foie gras, fillets of game birds, breast of pheasant, calf's sweetbreads, mixed together with Allemande sauce flavoured with Madeira.
A relation of passion fruit. It has green oval fruits up to 25 cm (10 inches) long, that are used as vegetables. As it ripens the flesh whitens and is used for drinks, jams (US: jellies) and sorbets. If it is very ripe it is sometimes flavoured with Madeira and eaten with a spoon.
Red mullet or surmullet. A high quality fish of a different family from the other (grey) mullets, and which has a far better flavour and lean, firm flesh. Its liver is highly prized. Do not confuse it with gurnard, which has a slightly paler colour. This fish may vary from pinkish-reddish crimson to rosy pink in colour with golden streaks and two long barbels on the chin. Mullus barbatus is the smaller of the two and is of not quite such good quality. Mullus surmuletus is more properly known as surmullet and is larger.