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Chocolate For Afternoon

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United States

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

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. one tablespoonful of whipped cream
  2. two teaspoonfuls of vanilla
  3. a cup of sugar
  4. one quart of milk
  5. Chocolate
  6. one spoonful of good brandy
  7. a dash of cinnamon
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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. Heat one quart of milk to the scalding point, and have melting in a saucer over the teakettle one-fourth cake of Baker’s chocolate.
  2. Stir in one small spoonful of cornstarch, that has been dissolved in a little cold milk ;
  3. then the melted chocolate and one-fourth of a cup of sugar.
  4. I^et it boil up.
  5. Flavor with two teaspoonfuls of vanilla.
  6. Into the cup pour one spoonful of good brandy;
  7. over this pour the chocolate.
  8. Add one tablespoonful of whipped cream and sprinkle over a dash of cinnamon.
  9. This is to be served with thin slices of bread and butter, or warm cream rolls, as it is too rich to serve with cake.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon