Suprême de fruits Gabrielle (Fruit Suprême Gabrielle)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Apple marmalade prepared as for Charlotte
- Eggs
- Butter
- Pears cooked in syrup
- Pineapple
- Mi-sucre cherries
- Angelica
- Currants and Smyrna raisins
- 500 grammes sugar
- 1 decilitre very thick almond milk
- Candied cherries
- Extra-fine butter
- Pistachios
Instructions
- Bind apple marmalade prepared as for Charlotte with eggs and poach it in a buttered fancy border mould in the bain-marie.
- Gather in a sauté pan a macédoine of fruit, in quantity proportionate to the capacity of the border: pear quarters cooked in syrup, pineapple in large diamonds, mi-sucre cherries, angelica cut into leaves, and currants and Smyrna raisins swelled in syrup.
- Add to the pear syrup the value of 500 grammes of sugar per half-litre of syrup and cook it to the ball degree.
- At that point let the sugar down with a decilitre of very thick almond milk.
- Pour it over the fruit and simmer very gently for 10 minutes.
- Turn the apple border out on to the serving dish and edge it with a crown of candied cherries.
- Off the fire, finish the macédoine with a little extra-fine butter and pour it into the border.
- Scatter blanched, finely shredded pistachios over it.