Grandma Taught Me This Egg Trick! Try These 45 French Cooking Secrets

Colette's book, The Old French Kitchen: https://oldfrenchkitchen.pages.dev/ Two eggs, six minutes, and out of the oven comes something that looks like a cloud. Colette's grandmother made it every time someone in the house was sick, and nobody ever worked out how she did it. That's the first of 45 little secrets from a French country kitchen where nothing was written down and nothing was wasted. Eggs, bread, meat, vegetables, soups, the cupboard and the sweet things, the everyday habits a grandmother passes on by doing them, not by explaining them. And the very last secret comes with a gold coin Colette still keeps wrapped in a handkerchief at the back of her kitchen drawer. Which of these did your own grandmother do? Tell Colette in the comments. 0:00 Eggs in the snow 3:07 What grandma knew about eggs 6:27 Never waste good bread 9:16 The meat rules she never broke 13:52 Vegetables 18:29 Soups and leftovers 21:10 Little secrets of taste 23:34 Grandma's cupboard 25:31 The sweet things 27:19 The crêpes and the gold coin #CookingTips #FrenchCooking #GrandmasKitchen