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The Cassole for Cassoulet Pot : This was one of the first pots Paula Wolfert, the well-known Moroccan and Mediterranean cookbook author, challenged us with making. She was writing a new edition of her famous “Cooking of SW France” and on the cover she had a cassole she had brought back from France some 25 years earlier. Plus, if she recommended a particular pot in a book, she felt she should give a local (US) source for a similar pot.
This pot is highfire stoneware and sized for the recipe in the book. That recipe is another legend as she researched all over France to discover the quintessential traditional “national dish” of France. After putting all the ingredients together (it takes part of 3 days of various steps prepping and pre-cooking). It is finished in the oven for about 3 hours bake time. The pot’s shape is to drive the heat in from the sides and make the beans rise to the top where they from an incredible crust. This dish is SO worth the work. Get to know a butcher who does pork and game.
A bit of French Bread, a salad and cassoulet and you’ll know you’ve died and gone to heaven. We gotten to calling it a party in a pot! At the end, your friends will be at the table waiting, maybe sipping a bit of wine, you’ll bring the cassoulet from the oven, and, sorry, it’s an automatic party. I’d recommend my individual pasta bowls to serve it in. And there’s no rules about seconds. This dish is pure decadence.
It is a big pot, starts with 10 lbs. of clay. About 14 inches in diameter plus handles, 7 to 8 inches high.
Available in Joe Frank Red, Yellow Salt, Bailey Iron Red, Old Black Magic
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This piece will take considerably longer to make than a normal pot. It is the biggest, hardest-to-throw piece I do. Just drying it will take a total of 5 or 6 weeks. Sorry, but that’s what it takes. One customer wanted to know why. Here it is:
“Hi Susan
Thanks for your order for a cassole. I won’t make the Oct 12 date you specified by any means. I tried to give somewhat of an explanation on the website, but it seems I need to be clearer.
The ones I made last week are 10 days into their initial drying. With a few more days to go before I can trim them and add the handles. The second drying can take 3-4 weeks for 2 reasons, The size of this pot (48 inches around) means the rim has to shrink some 6 inches in circumference, putting a lot of stress on the drying clay, and the handles which are sticking out, dry too fast and harden. Then when the pot shrinks beneath them, they will break-away from the pot. To avoid this they must be kept covered and dampened during the drying. In total the clay shrinks some 13% linearly.”
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Cassole for Cassoulet
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