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
The Ridiculous Wishes sausages on her nose. Finally, they agreed to use the last wish to take the sausages off her nose, leaving them no better off than before. In some different types of versions of this tale, black pudding is used instead of sausages. The Ridiculous Wishes The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes () is a French literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697 in the volume titled "Histoires ou contes du temps passé". It is Aarne-Thompson type 750A. A woodcutter complained of his poor lot. Jupiter (or, alternatively, a tree spirit) granted him three wishes. The woodcutter