Rezuls

Rezuls, in French rissoles, were the holiday dessert. Prepared by the hundreds, they invaded houses and farmhouses around Christmas and one ate them for the next two months. In many areas nothing has changed. Around Christmas, Savoie markets offer the dried Lombardes prunes, home-dried in the fall with the preparation of Christmas rezuls in mind. A Christmas without rezuls is so unthinkable that there is always an older farm woman or two at the market who sells t