Melon en Surprise (Melon Filled with a Fruit Macédoine and Wild Strawberry Purée)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 melon
- Macédoine of fresh fruit
- the pulp taken from the melon
- wild strawberry purée
- sugar
- kirsch
Instructions
- Empty the melon as for Melon à l'Orientale and cut the pulp taken from it into dice.
- Sweeten a purée of wild strawberries and flavour it with kirsch.
- Bind a Macédoine of fresh fruit and the diced melon pulp with this purée.
- Fill the melon with the mixture, close it, and keep it in the cooler for 2 hours.