Chocolate and Orange Custard

Ingredients

• 1J pts. milk
• 2 table-sps. sugar
• 2 table-sps. cornflour
• 2 eggs
• Vanilla essence
• 2 oz. chocolate
• I 2 or 3 oranges

Method

1. 1

   Put 1 pint of milk into a saucepan and bring it to the boil, add the cornflour mixed smoothly with 1 gill of milk, and stir and cook well about 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Grate or shred the chocolate, and dissolve it in a small saucepan with the remainder of the milk.

3. 3

   Add this to the cornflour and mix until smooth.

4. 4

   Then remove the saucepan from the fire, add the yolks of eggs, sugar, and vanilla, and let the mixture cool.

5. 5

   Remove the skin and all white pith from the oranges.

6. 6

   Slice them thinly, removing the seeds, and lay them in a glass dish.

7. 7

   Pour the chocolate mixture over.

8. 8

   Whip the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add a little sugar and pile on the top of the custard.

9. 9

   Place the dish on ice or in a very cool place, and serve as cold as possible.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 698. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate and Orange Custard 1J pts. milk. | 2 table-sps. sugar. 2 table-sps. cornflour. 2 eggs. Vanilla essence. 2 oz. chocolate. I 2 or 3 oranges

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