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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. one ounce or one
  2. Sugar
  3. quarter cupful of cold milk
  4. Vanilla
  5. a tin cup
  6. one and a quarter cupfuls of milk
  7. 122 chocolate
  8. Whipped cream
  9. Cream
Contains Milk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. For invalids the homoeopathic preparation of chocolate called " alkathrepta " is the most wholesome, for the reason that it contains no vanilla — and vanilla should never be used by an invalid.
  2. The homoeopathic writers say that it is a most unwholesome, if not poisonous, flavoring for any one.
  3. Indeed, vanilla is sometimes used medicinally.
  4. For one coffee-cupful of chocolate (half- pint cup) allow one ounce or one and a quarter table-spoonfuls of chocolate and one and a quarter cupfuls of milk.
  5. Scrape the chocolate into a tin cup and mix in by degrees the quarter cupful of cold milk ;
  6. stir it carefully over the fire (taking care that it does not burn) until it is a perfectly smooth paste.
  7. When the remaining cupful of milk is boiling, sweeten it with two lumps of loaf-sugar, and stir in the chocolate paste, adding a little of the boiling milk to it, to dilute it evenly.
  8. Let it boil a minute.
  9. Stir it into a froth with an egg-whisk, and serve immediately.
  10. A table-spoonful of whipped cream on top of the 122 chocolate in the cup is a pleasing addition ;
  11. or the cream can be put in the bottom of the cup and the chocolate poured over it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon