Pêches Maintenon (Peaches Maintenon)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- biscuit
- crème frangipane
- candied fruit
- almonds
- meringue italienne
- peach halves
Instructions
- Take a biscuit baked in a dome mould and let it cool completely.
- Cut it crosswise into thin slices.
- Mix crème frangipane with a fine salpicon of candied fruit and chopped grilled almonds, and mask each slice with it.
- Reassemble the slices one on the other to reform the biscuit.
- Mask the biscuit with meringue italienne, decorate with a cornet and dry the meringue in the oven.
- Surround it with a turban of fine peach halves poached in vanilla syrup.