Now you may be wondering why we have this card, but the answer is simple - because one of the things we most look forward to doing on our holidays is testing out other cuisines.
At one time, the only place you could get exotic food was in an exotic place. Nowadays, almost every supermarket has a section of world foods, and some of them are really simple to cook.
Easiest of all is soup, as shown on our card, though today we do not need the fish, we just tear open a packet, put it in the microwave or on the hob, and not long after we have soup. Just a quick look in one supermarket has come up with french onion (France), minestrone (Italy), mediterranean tomato (many countries), clam chowder (USA), petis pois and bacon (France), vegetable and turmeric (India), chicken and lemongrass (Thailand), beef consomme (France) and mulligatawny, which actually comes from in Tamil Nadu, in India.
As far as the maker, Revillon, they were started in Lyon, in 1898, by members of the Thomas and Pelen families. These cards are also printed by local printer Paul Fort, of Rue V Sardou in Lyon.
They stayed in that town for almost a hundred years then moved to Roanne, by the Loire river, in the 1970s.
Now this set contains twelve cards, all of recipes, and those recipes are given on the reverse of the cards. The menu is :
- Pommes de terre Frites (Chips)
- Pigeons aux Petits Pois
- Sauce blanche ou Sauce a la creme
- Potage Veloute
- Soupe de Poissons
- Un Bon Jus
- Les Poissons Meuniere
- La Potee Farmiere
- La Rapee Stephanoise
- Les Moules et la Marinere
- La Daube du Perigord
- Preparation du Riz