Supreme of Fruits, a la Victoria

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
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Ingredients (13)
Base
Fruit Topping
Garnish and Decoration
Instructions (8)
  1. Prepare Genoese cake about an inch thick.
  2. Cut three or four graduated circular pieces from the cake: the largest, eight inches in diameter for the basement; the next, six inches; the third, four inches; and the smallest, an inch and a half in diameter.
  3. Stack the cake pieces one upon the other, using fruit-jam to stick them together, forming a pyramid.
  4. Arrange rows of prepared peaches, apricots, pears, or apples (as for compote) closely and connectedly upon this elevation.
  5. Form a vase or cup out of apple or pear and place it at the summit, filling it with a Macedoine of fruits.
  6. Mask the rows of fruit with apricot jam diluted with maraschino.
  7. Using a paper cornet or biscuit-forcer filled with whipped cream, ornament the base of the entremet in a wave-like fashion.
  8. Place plumed pieces of green angelica upon the whipped cream decoration.
Original Text
SUPREME OF FRUITS, A LA VICTORIA. FOR this purpose some Genoese cake about an inch thick should be first prepared, and out of this, three or four graduated circular pieces should be cut; the largest, with which to form the basement, must be eight inches in diameter, the next six, the third four, and lastly finishing with a round piece an inch and a half in diameter; these being stuck one upon the other with some kind of fruit-jam, will thus produce a kind of pyramid. Upon this elevation close or connected rows of either peaches, apricots, pears, or apples, prepared as for compote must be placed; finishing at the summit with a vase or cup formed out of apple or pear, and filled with a Macedoine of fruits. Mask the rows of fruit with some apricot jam, diluted with maraschino; and with a paper cornet or biscuit-forcer, filled with whipped cream, ornament the base of the entremet in wave-like fashion, upon these place some plumed pieces of green angelica.
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