Mont-Blanc aux fraises (Strawberry Mont-Blanc)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Macerate the small wild strawberries in cold vanilla syrup and drain them well.
  2. Add them to the very firm, sweetened, vanilla-flavoured Crème Chantilly, in the proportion of 125 grammes of strawberries per litre of cream.
  3. Dress the cream in a dome.
  4. Roll large strawberries in caster sugar and surround the base with them.
  5. Decorate the surface with halves of large, very red strawberries.

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