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Riz à l'impératrice

Rice pudding dish in French haute cuisine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Riz à l'impératrice
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Riz à l'impératrice (pronounced [ʁi a lɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tʁis]) is an elaborate molded version of rice pudding in French haute cuisine. Rice pudding is mixed with Bavarian cream, set in a charlotte mold, turned out and then decorated with candied fruits macerated in alcohol such as kirsch or maraschino.[1]

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The dessert is said to have been named in honor of the Empress Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France from 1853 to 1870.[2][3]

Marcel Proust refers to the dish in Volume one of his In Search of Lost Time. [4]

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