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Chocola Te

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Cream
  2. Chocolate
  3. Tea
  4. Broth
  5. a teacupful of milk
  6. Water
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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

  1. teacup and a half of water, and boiled down to a teacup ;
  2. stir in half a teacupful of milk or cream, warm, but do not boil, and serve.
  3. Chocolate No.
  4. 2.
  5. Take a tablet of chocolate for each cup.
  6. Break the tablet in two pieces, put it into a cup, and pour on it enough boiling water or milk to cover the pieces ;
  7. leave it alone, off the fire, about five minutes, or long enough to become thoroughly soaked.
  8. Now pour off the superfluous liquid and mash the chocolate into a soft pulp ;
  9. then turn the whole into the saucepan of boiling water or milk on the fire, and five or six minutes’ boiling will be sufficient.
  10. It need not be stirred much while on the fire, as the chocolate, being completely dissolved, will not stick to the bottom of the saucepan.
  11. After the five or six minutes’ boiling, it may stand eight or ten minutes near the fire, to get mellow.
  12. Milk or water is used according to taste.
  13. A silver, porcelain, or earthenware saucepan will do, or even a copper one well tinned ;
  14. but tin and iron saucepans, or any utensils employed for the ordinary uses of the kitchen, ought not to be used, as they may give the chocolate a bad flavour.
  15. The stirring may be done with a wooden spoon.
  16. Chocolate is not a mere infusion, like tea, but rather a fine and delicate sort of vegetable broth or soup, at once a cheering drink and nourishing food.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula