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Chocolate seizes

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. 4 ounces of chocolate
  3. 1/4 cup cream

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. Chocolate can seize (turn coarse and grainy) when it comes into contact with water.
  2. Place seized chocolate in a metal bowl over a large saucepan with an inch of simmering water in it.
  3. Over medium heat, slowly whisk in warm heavy cream.
  4. Use 1/4 cup cream to 4 ounces of chocolate.
  5. The chocolate will melt and become smooth.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Large pot
  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Whisk
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Credit

From In The Beginning Zion Lutheran Church Hutchinson 125th Anniversary Cookbook, printed page 281, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/in-the-beginning-zion-lutheran-church-hutchinson-125th-anniversary-cookbook

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.