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papillote
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In French cuisine, food prepared en papillote is cooked and served in a sealed package of greaseproof paper or aluminium foil. The method is used particularly for fish. Papillote originally meant ‘piece of paper in which a lock of hair is rolled to make it curl’, and was apparently a late seventeenth-century derivative of papillon, ‘butterfly’.
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