Bombe Comtesse-Marie

Name: Bombe Comtesse-Marie (Mold of Vanilla Ice Cream and Strawberries)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons crème fraîche; 1 quart strawberries; ½ cup sugar; 3 tablespoons Kirsch; Whipped cream; Recipe of Crème à l’Anglaise

Mold of Vanilla Ice Cream and Strawberries

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

This bombe is made of vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries. It gets its name from the square Comtesse-Marie mold in which it is shaped.

Ingredients

Recipe of Crème à l’Anglaise
2 tablespoons crème fraîche
1 quart strawberries</

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Put a Comtesse-Marie mold (square container with a lid) into the freezer to get cold.
Make Crème à l’Anglaise and cool. Stir in crème fraîche and freeze into ice cream in a freezer.
When frozen, remove paddle. Coat the entire square mold with a 1-