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Melon en Surprise

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 4

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 448. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MELON EN SURPRISE Empty the melon as above, and fill it with a mzzcédoine of fresh fruits, combined with the withdrawn pulp of the melon, cut into dice and cohered with a sugared and Kirsch-flavoured purée of wild strawberries

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