Pudding de Castries (Iced Bombe Pudding with Vanilla and Mandarin)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Glace à la Vanille
- Composition à Bombe
- Composition à Bombe
- Biscuits à la cuiller
- Anisette
- Grated chocolate
- Crushed red pralines
- Mandarin syrup
Instructions
- Line a bombe mould with a thin layer of Glace à la Vanille.
- Have ready two Compositions à Bombe, one vanilla, the other mandarin.
- Cut the biscuits à la cuiller into dice and soak them in anisette.
- Fill the mould with the two compositions in alternate, very thin layers, scattering the soaked biscuit dice over each vanilla layer.
- Scatter a few pinches of grated chocolate between each layer of composition.
- Finish filling the mould with a layer of Glace à la Vanille.
- Close the mould hermetically and keep the pudding packed in ice for 2 hours.
- Turn out and scatter crushed red pralines over it.
- Serve an iced mandarin syrup separately.