Chapter XI · Hors-d’Œuvres · No. 363
363—Various Melons
France produces a large variety of melons, of which the principal kinds are the Sucrins of Tours, the St. Laud melon, the black melons of the Carmes, &c. They are all excellent, and are served like the Cantaloups.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 363, p. 155. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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