Pommes de terre Mousseline (Potato Mousseline in a Flan Crust)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 flan crust
- Hollande potatoes
- salt
- white pepper
- 250 grammes butter
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 decilitres whipped cream
- melted butter
Instructions
- Prepare a flan crust and bake it blind.
- Bake a few Hollande potatoes in the oven and remove the pulp.
- Season the pulp with salt and white pepper and work it over the fire with 250 grammes of butter and 4 egg yolks per kilo of pulp.
- Add 2 decilitres of whipped cream.
- Dress the composition in the crust, shaping it into a dome, keeping back a little for decoration.
- Decorate with the reserved composition using a bag and fluted nozzle.
- Sprinkle with melted butter and glaze briskly.