Richard Olney’s Pompe è L’Huile

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Feast of Christmas: Origins, Traditions and Recipes

By Paul Levy

Published 1992

  • About

This recipe, taken from one in Simple French Food, can also be the basis of fouaces or fougasses. In Provence they sometimes add orange-flower water to the liquid, and in Nice they add saffron to the dry ingredients. I sometimes make a savoury version, leaving out the sugar and lemon peel, and substituting some thick-cut chopped bacon or bits of ham or crumbled cheese. Olney says pom