this pretty dessert which perhaps means meringue in Polish, came straight from the imagination of our friend Jacques Delfontaine who works as a chef and restaurateur in Burgundy near Chablis (see my Burgundy travel log). its biggest advantage is that it can vary constantly with the seasons
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Ingredients for 4 servings

servings
  • 8 meringue discs 8 to 9cm in diameter (formed with a bowl)
  • 4 tablespoons of cold pastry cream
  • ¼ litre of vanilla ice cream or sorbet of your choice
  • various fruits changing every season: peaches pears apricots mirabelles berries etc
Raspberry coulis:
  • 4.4 oz (125g) fresh or frozen raspberries blended with 1.75 oz (50g) caster sugar and a little lemon juice then strained through a chinois sieve.
  • for the pastry cream and meringue the recipes are on this site.