Melon en Surprise
From Cookery for every household, 1914
Serves 8
By altering the kinds of ices used, this dish may be varied indefinitely.
Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 785. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Melon en Surprise Vanilla cream ice. Strawberry water ice. Take a melon -shaped mould, rinse it with water, and stand on ice to become thoroughly cold. Make some vanilla cream ice (Recipe 2217) and line the mould with it to about 1 inch in thickness, keeping it standing on the ice all the time. Fill up the centre with strawberry water ice, which has been flavoured with a little liqueur, then close the mould and freeze at least 3 hours. Freeze Melon en Surprise also an ice border (see p. 486)
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