Afternoon Chocolate
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 5 ingredients
- 2 tablespoonfuls sugar
- 1 quart milk
- 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
- 2 squares chocolate
- a tablespoonful of whipped cream
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Milk
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- 1 quart milk, 2 squares chocolate, 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar.
- Put the chocolate in a double boiler.
- When it melts, add the sugar and stir thoroughly till dissolved.
- Add the boiling water and beat it smooth, then pour over it the scalded milk.
- With an egg-beater, whip the beverage till it foams, keeping it over the fire.
- Serve from a chocolate pot, sweetening to taste and putting into each cupful a tablespoonful of whipped cream.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Whisk
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Wooden spoon