Soufflé aux Grenades à l'Orientale (Pomegranate Soufflé, Oriental Style)

Name: Soufflé aux Grenades à l'Orientale (Pomegranate Soufflé, Oriental Style)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: Soufflé composition; biscuits à la cuiller (sponge fingers); grenadine; kirsch; spun sugar; small bonbons flavoured with essence of pomegranate

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Soufflé composition
biscuits à la cuiller (sponge fingers)
grenadine
kirsch
spun sugar
small bonbons flavoured with essence of pomegranate

Instructions

Prepare a Soufflé composition, lightly flavoured with vanilla.
Soak the sponge fingers in grenadine and kirsch.
Arrange the composition in a timbale, in alternate layers with the soaked sponge fingers.
Bake the soufflé.
On taking it from the oven, cover it with a veil of spun sugar and scatter over it small pomegranate-essence bonbons imitating the seeds of the fruit.