Pasteque d'Orientate

Ingredients

• a large green-fleshed water melon
• dust each slice generously with finely crushed sugar candy
• either rum, champagne, or any delicate liqueur to taste

Method

1. 1

   Peel the watermelon, slice the flesh horizontally, and remove the seeds.

2. 2

   Dust each slice with sugar candy and liqueur, then replace the fruit into shape and set it in the ice cave until frozen.

3. 3

   Serve on a bed of cotton wool or a water border mould.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Ices (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pasteque d V Orientate. — Peel a large green-fleshed water melon {pasteque^, also removing the inner hard white rind, and then slice the flesh horizontally, removing the seeds ; dust each slice generously with finely crushed sugar candy, and either rum, cham- pagne, or any delicate liqueur to tas

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