Turbot Vallée d’Auge

In the Auge Valley of Normandy, home of the finest cider apples, the grass is said to grow so fast that a stick left lying out at night is covered by morning. All sorts of ingredients, from fish, chicken, and veal to pheasant, are given the Auge Valley treatment, a pale and utterly delicious sauce of apple, apple cider (it must be alcoholic, or hard, cider), and crème fraîche, often with mushrooms. Most white fish take kindly to the sauce, with sole, flounder, and John Dory immediately spri