Blue ling. A small variety of ling, it is a long, slender, scaleless fish with a barbel. This is a variety which lives in the Mediterranean which is considered to be slightly inferior to ling.
Blue ling. A small variety of ling, it is a long, slender, scaleless fish with a barbel. This is a variety which lives in the Mediterranean which is considered to be slightly inferior to ling.
Bénédictine. A liqueur invented by a Bénédictine monk in the 16th Century, and reputed to be the world’s oldest liqueur. Distilled at Fécamp in Normandy. Benedictine comprises 27 herbs, plants and peels, some of which blossom on the cliffs nearby. The processes are many and complicated, and take three years.
The neck of a Champagne bottle is frozen in a brine bath called bac à glace in preparation for dégorgement, the removal of sediment from the bottle. This immediately precedes "dosage" in the méthode champenoise. Dosage, or liqueur d'expedition, is the addition of a mixture of wine and sugar which determines the eventual sweetness of the contents of the bottle, which is then corked.
