Chapter XI · Hors-d’Œuvres · No. 361
361—English Melons
The English variety of melons is inferior in quality to the French.
Their shape is oval, their peel is yellow, thin, and smooth, and their pulp, which is white, more nearly resembles the water-melon than the melon in flavour.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 361, p. 155. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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