A dark, rich dish of cockerel, jointed, sealed and flambéed with brandy, then stewed in red wine, with button onions and mushrooms and the blood of the bird. Well cooked this is one of the great classic dishes.
A cockerel stewed in the sherry-like, yellow wine of Arbois in Jura in Franche-Comté, with cream, tarragon and morels.
Black grouse. Heath cock. It lives on moors, near trees and likes marshy ground with rushes, stands of trees and rocky, heather-covered hills.
"Cock of the heath." Wood grouse, grand or petit. Capercaillie, the size of a turkey. This also refers to black grouse, mountain cock.
"Shell." A type of brioche flavoured with citron and angelica, traditionally made at Easter in Quercy. It is also a clam-like shellfish.
"Shell." Cockle. A clam-like shellfish. It is also a type brioche flavoured with citron and angelica as well as being a name for smooth clam or brown Venus shell.
