Cassoulet only beans, tomato sauce, sausages, and bacon. More expensive versions are likely to be cooked with goose fat and to include Toulouse sausages, lamb, goose, or duck confit. Haute cuisine versions require mixing pre-cooked roasted meats with beans that have been simmered separately with aromatic vegetables, but this runs counter to cassoulet's peasant origins. In the process of preparing the dish it is traditional to deglaze the pot from the previous cassoulet in order to give a base for the next one. This has led to stories, such as the one given by Elizabeth David, citing Anatole France, of a
Offal is made from beef tripe. Ground or chopped pork offal is usually made into a hearty sausage known as ""disznósajt"" (lit. "pork cheese") somewhat resembling haggis. Puddings and sausages made with blood ("véres hurka") and liver ("májas hurka") are also quite common, especially as part of the ""disznótoros"," a dish of different sausages produced from pork. Heart, liver and gizzards of chicken are a traditional part of chicken soup. While decreasing in popularity, stews made from poultry testicles ("kakashere pörkölt") are still considered a delicacy and a dish of high prestige in the countryside. Another dish which became less common