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Chocolate Marbled Blancmange

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a tablespoonful of milk
  2. Sugar
  3. Cocoa
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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. Mix the cornflour and sugar together, moisten with cold milk, pour over the remainder of milk boiling, put back into pan and boil 3 minutes ;
  2. meanwhile, put cocoa essence with the same quantity of sugar into a pan with enough milk just to moisten it, warm, pour into the pan containing the white mixture, stir lightly ;
  3. pour into wetted mould, turn out when cold.
  4. A little cochineal may be mixed with a tablespoonful of milk and stirred in lightly to the white blancmange to give a pink decoration.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon