Kaltckale
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1903
Ingredients
- 250 grammes peaches
- 250 grammes pineapple
- 125 grammes melon
- 125 grammes mixed raspberries and red and white currants
- cinnamon
- 1/2 bottle white wine
- 650 grammes sugar
- 1 lemon zest
- 1/2 litre strawberry and currant purée
- 1 bottle champagne
Instructions
- Peel and slice the peaches and the pineapple; add the diced melon and the stripped raspberries and currants.
- Gather the fruit in a timbale and keep it on ice.
- Infuse a fragment of cinnamon in half a bottle of boiling white wine; add 650 grammes of sugar and a lemon zest, and let it cool, stirring from time to time.
- Mix half a litre of mixed strawberry and currant purée into the infusion.
- Filter it, and complete it with a bottle of champagne.
- Pour over the fruit and serve very cold.