Melon en Surprise (Melon Filled with a Fruit Macédoine and Wild Strawberry Purée)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Empty the melon as for Melon à l'Orientale and cut the pulp taken from it into dice.
  2. Sweeten a purée of wild strawberries and flavour it with kirsch.
  3. Bind a Macédoine of fresh fruit and the diced melon pulp with this purée.
  4. Fill the melon with the mixture, close it, and keep it in the cooler for 2 hours.

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