Mont-Blanc aux fraises (Strawberry Mont-Blanc)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 litre Crème Chantilly
- 125 grammes small wild strawberries
- cold vanilla syrup
- large strawberries
- caster sugar
- large
Instructions
- Macerate the small wild strawberries in cold vanilla syrup and drain them well.
- Add them to the very firm, sweetened, vanilla-flavoured Crème Chantilly, in the proportion of 125 grammes of strawberries per litre of cream.
- Dress the cream in a dome.
- Roll large strawberries in caster sugar and surround the base with them.
- Decorate the surface with halves of large, very red strawberries.