Baked Chocolate Custard

Ingredients

• 1 pint of milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup grated chocolate
• 2 tablespoons boiling water

Method

1. 1

   While milk is heating in a double boiler, mix chocolate and sugar together, add boiling water and stir until smooth.

2. 2

   Remove from fire and gradually beat in hot milk.

3. 3

   Add salt, pour over well-beaten eggs, stirring all the time.

4. 4

   Pour into a baking dish, set in a pan of hot water, and bake until firm in center, about thirty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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