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Chocolate- and Vanilla-cream Bonbons

From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 338. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate- and. Vanilla-cream Bonbons. — Soak 2oz. of the finest picked gum arabic in J pint of hot water, squeeze it through muslin, flavour with a few drops of essence of vanilla, and put in as much caster sugar as it will absorb, working the whole into a rather stiff, smooth paste. Melt 4oz. of Chocolate with 1 table- spoonful of water, standing it in the oven until it is quite dissolved, and then beat in with a spoon the whites of two eg’gs

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