Charlotte Carmen (Tomato and Red Pimento Charlotte)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- wafers
- 250 grammes tomato marmalade
- 125 grammes red pimento marmalade
- a point of powdered ginger
- 100 grammes candied ginger
- juice of 3 lemons
- 3 decilitres hot syrup at 32 degrees
- 10 leaves gelatine
- 1 litre whipped cream
Instructions
- Line the Charlotte mould with wafers.
- Mix the tomato marmalade, the red pimento marmalade, the point of powdered ginger, the diced candied ginger, the juice of the 3 lemons, the 3 decilitres of hot syrup at 32 degrees and the 10 dissolved gelatine leaves.
- When the composition begins to bind, add the litre of whipped cream.
- Fill the lined mould with the composition.