The runniness of cheese.

A full dry white wine made from Chenin Blanc grape. It may add its name to Savennières and is good with fish.

This describes the act of pouring aspic through a slit in a crust into a pie to fill the gap between the filling and the crust.

An elaborate hot brioche or puff pastry pie filled with layers of sturgeon, salmon, or sometimes chicken, rice, cream and buckwheat or semolina with herbs, hard boiled eggs and mushrooms or soft roes, brains; really any good and delicious ingredient that is available. For authenticity this dish should contain vesiga, the dried spinal columns, containing the marrow of sturgeon.

A thick sauce or purée, often of liquidised fruit or tomatoes, sieved and often sweetened. It could also be the juices derived from meats during cooking, thickened and served as a sauce. It may also refer to mashed potatoes.

A sauce of puréed tomatoes, sugar, garlic, saffron, oil and basil. Good with pasta and fish.

Crayfish bisque. A rich cream sauce with puréed crayfish, butter and truffles.

"Lobster coulis." A thick lobster sauce with bacon and tomatoes, similar to sauce à l'américaine.