Chocolate - American Recipe

Chocolate

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Small saucepan, Double-boiler, Tablespoon, Dover beater

Traditional preparation of chocolate from the 1920s home kitchen.

Ingredients

• (For two cups of chocolate):
• ¾ square bitter chocolate
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1½ cups milk
• ½ cup boiling water

Method

1. Melt — the chocolate in a small saucepan set over the top of a teakettle containing boiling water.
2. Heat — the milk in the double-boiler.
3. Stir — the sugar into the melted chocolate, and add the boiling water, stirring constantly.
4. Place — the saucepan directly over the fire and let its contents boil for one minute, stirring all the time.
5. Pour — the contents of the saucepan into the milk in the double-boiler, and beat with a dover beater until the mixture becomes frothy.
6. Place — the top of the double-boiler directly over the fire, and allow its contents to reheat slowly, stirring constantly.

Tags: milk, sugar, chocolate · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Serve with whipped cream.