Poached fruit such as pears or peaches served hot with thick cream vanilla custard, crushed macaroons, apricot and kirsch sauce. It can also be made with semolina or pudding rice. It is named after a street in Paris where there was a renowned pastry shop.
Tarte Bourdaloue was created at the beginning of the twentieth century by an unknown pastry chef. It was named for the street - Rue Bourdaloue - where the pastry chef's shop was located, and is also how the name of a seventeenth-century preacher, Louis Bourdaloue - for whom the street was named. It became part of culinary history.
A whole apple cooked in a pastry case in Normandy. If a pear is wrapped in pastry it is called a douillon.
Bourgeais is a vine growing area of Bordeaux situated on the right bank of the Gironde opposite the Médoc. They can age well and are good table wines.
Bourg-en-Bresse is the prefecture of the Ain department and of Bresse. It trades in wine, grain and poultry and is known for flour-milling and cheese-making.
Bourgogne is the French name for Burgundy, a province and region in the east of France which produces some of the finest wines in the world. The vineyards extend from Auxerre in the north almost as far as Lyon. Wines are produced in five regions, including Chablis, Côte d’Or (which includes Côte de Beaune and Côte-de-Nuits), Côte Chalonnaise and Mercurey, Mâconnais and Beaujolais. Famous wines from the region include Romanée-Conti, Chablis, Fleurie, Gevrey-Chambertin, Meursault, Montagny and Pouilly-Fuissé. Dry wines such as Montrachet are among the finest in the world.
