Fonds d’artichauts à la Provençale, prepare the arti-chokes as above without the farce, place them in a pie-dish with enough salad oil to keep them moist and safe from burn-ing, and with six cloves of garlic, pepper, and salt. Put the dish into the oven, and bake : when the fonds are tender, remove the garlic, give them a dust of pepper and the squeeze of a lemon, dish up, and serve. People who dislike oil, and a far-off suspicion of garlic, can of course use melted butter and slices of shallot.