Chapter XXII · Drinks and Refreshments · No. 2942
2942—Kaltschale
Peel and slice one-half lb. of peaches and an equal quantity of pineapple; add four oz. of ripe, melon pulp, cut into dice, and four oz. of a mixture of raspberries and red and white currants, cleared of their stalks. Put these fruits in a silver timbale and keep the latter on ice. Set a little cinnamon to infuse in a half-bottleful of boiling, white wine; add six oz. of sugar and the zest of one lemon; and let the whole cool. Then add half a pint of a mixed purée of strawberries and red-currants to this infusion.
Filter the whole, and complete it by the addition of a bottle of champagne.
Pour this preparation over the fruit, and serve the timbale very cold.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 2942, p. 818. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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