Chapter XX · Entremets (Sweets) · No. 2466
Built upon: No. 2376Pâte à Génoise FineNo. 2382Ordinary Meringue
2466—Example: Norwegian Omelet
Place an oval cushion one and one half in. thick of No. 2376, Pâte à Génoise Fine upon a long dish, and let the cushion be as long as the desired omelet. Upon this cushion set a pyramid of ice-cream with fruit. Cover the ice-cream with ordinary meringue (No. 2382, Ordinary Meringue); smooth it with a knife, making it of an even thickness of two-thirds of an inch in so doing; decorate it, by means of the piping-bag, with the same meringue, and set in a very hot oven, that the meringue may cook and colour quickly, without the heat reaching the ice inside.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 2466, p. 727. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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