25 French Cooking Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down!

Colette's book, The Old French Kitchen: https://oldfrenchkitchen.pages.dev/ My grandmother never wrote down a single one of these. In this video, Colette shares 25 old French kitchen tricks she learned by watching her grandmother on a farm in the French countryside, the everyday habits that never made it into a cookbook. You'll learn how to start a pot-au-feu in cold water for a broth so clear you can see the bottom of the bowl, and why a burnt onion gives it its golden color. You'll see why the salt goes into the vinegar before the oil, and how to make beurre noisette. There's a soup made from radish tops, and pain perdu that turns stale bread into dessert. Colette also shows you the vinegar crock that turns leftover wine into vinegar, and the jar of fat that was her grandmother's kitchen savings account. At number one comes the Sunday roast chicken that fed the family for three days. These are frugal, no-waste French cooking secrets from a time when nothing was thrown away, told the way they were passed down, hand to hand. #FrenchCooking #GrandmasKitchen #OldFashionedRecipes