A Vol-au-Vent of Fruit (Entremets)

Source: Eliza Acton, 1845

Instructions

  1. After the crust has been made and baked as above, fill it at the moment of serving with peaches, apricots, mogul, or any other richly flavoured plums, which have been stewed tender in syrup.
  2. Lift them from the syrup, and keep them hot while it is boiled rapidly almost to jelly.
  3. Then arrange the fruit in the vol-au-vent, and pour the syrup over it.
  4. For the manner of preparing the fruit, see compotes of fruit, Chapter XXIV.; but increase the proportion of sugar nearly half, that the juice may be reduced quickly to the proper consistency for the vol-au-vent.
  5. Skin and divide the apricots, and quarter the peaches, unless they should be very small.

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