Historical Europe

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Historical Europe

1 recipe

Illustrative rillettes: cooked meat shredded into fine fibers in a plain ceramic crock beneath a pale rendered-fat layer; the species and regional style are not specified.
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Rillettes

Cooked meat or fish shredded or pounded, packed into pots and covered with fat. Heat, salt, moisture reduction and the fat cover work together, and the texture separates rillettes from whole-piece confit.

Historical Europe