Fraises Lérina (Strawberries Lérina, in a Melon)

Ingredients

• small melon noir des Carmes
• sugar
• strawberries
• Lérina liqueur

Instructions

1. Open a small melon noir des Carmes by detaching a round piece with the stalk at its centre.
2. Remove the seeds and filaments.
3. Detach the flesh with a dessert spoon and sprinkle it with sugar.
4. Macerate the required quantity of strawberries in Lérina liqueur.
5. Garnish the emptied melon with the strawberries and the flesh removed.
6. Close it again with the piece taken out and hold it packed in ice for 2 hours in a cooler.
7. Arrange on a napkin at the last moment.