Chocolate Cheesecakes

Ingredients

• Short pastry.
• ½ pint milk.
• 1 oz. chocolate.
• 3 oz. castor sugar.
• A small piece of butter.

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the chocolate in the milk, add the sugar, butter and the egg yolks, and stir it over the fire till it is as smooth as thick cream.

2. 2

   Add more milk if too thick.

3. 3

   Line some patty-pans with the pastry, pour in the mixture, and bake them.

4. 4

   When done, spread the top with beaten egg white and sugar, set for a minute in the oven, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 oz. castor sugar. 2 whole eggs. 1 yolk. Few drops essence. F rying oil. Put the water, sugar and butter in a saucepan and bring it to the boil ; remove from fire and stir in the Hour, beating vigorously with a wooden spoon till it is smooth ; when it leaves the sides of the saucepan quite clean, remove from the fire and stir till cool, add the eggs one by one and stir the essence in well. Turn on to a plate, take small pieces in the shape of an egg and fry in hot (not boiling) oil till a golden brown, drain paper, fill with jam, or, if eaten cold, with whipped and flavoured cream, or thick custard. BUTTER SWEETS. 109 RICH BOLA. 1 lb. dough. £ lb. butter. 5 oz. brown sugar. 4 oz. ground almonds. H oz. ground cinnamon. “ Hundreds 3 eggs.. f lb. mixed candied peel. 1 lb. loaf sugar. j pint water. Orange-flower water, and thousands.” Let the dough rise in a basin near the fire for about ^ an liour. Then rub the butter into it, also 1 oz. of brown sugar, the ground almonds, ^ oz. of cinnamon, and the beaten eggs. Beat the mixture well for f of an hour. Shred the peel, add to it 1 oz. cinnamon and 5 lb. brown sugar. Grease a round dish, put in a layer of dough, then a layer of the candied peel mixture, continue in layers and finish with a thin layer of dough ; ornament with large slices of citron peel and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Boil the loaf sugar and water together till clear, flavour with orange-flower water; make holes in the hot cake with a silver skewer, pour the hot syrup over it and let the cake stand for a few days if possible, turning the dish over once or twice, so that all parts of the cake may bo saturated with syrup. CANARY PUDDING. 3 eggs, and their weight in The weight of 2 eggs in butter and castor sugar. flour. Grated rind of 1 lemon. Cream the butter and sugar together, beat in the eggs ono by one, and add the flour and lemon rind last. When thoroughly mixed, pour into a buttered mould, tie it up and boil or steam for 2 hours. Turn it out, sift sugar over it, and serve hot with wine or German sauce. CARAMEL CUSTARDS. Petites Cremes Penversees. 2 oz. castor sugar. 4 pint milk. 3 eggs. 5 or 6 drops vanilla. Lemon juice. Put 1 teaspoonful castor sugar into each dariole mould with ^ teaspoonful lemon juice. Put these on to a hot-plate, melt, brown, run the caramel round, and set them 1 minute in cold water. Beat the eggs, add sugar, milk and flavouring, and strain. Fill the dariole moulds, put them into boiling water and simmer till set. Turn out and serve hot or cold. 110 DAINTY DINNERS AND DISHES CASTLE BASKETS. 9 P o' era Their weight in butter, castor sugar, and Eureka aerated Hour. Few drops vanilla. Apricot jam. t, gill of cream. Strips of angelica. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add a little Hour, then 1 egg, more flour, and the other egg, the remainder of the flour and the vanilla. Beat all together for 10 minutes. Butter some dariole moulds well, half fill them with the mixture, bake in a hot oven about 20 minutes. Turn them out on a wire sieve and leave them to get cold. Scoop out part of the centre, carefully cover the outsides with a puree of apricot jam, sprinkle with chopped almonds. But some apricot jam in each little cake, whip up the cream with sugar and flavouring to taste and put some of this whip on the top of each cake. Place a strip of angelica from side to side to form the basket handle and a glace cherry in the centre of the cream. CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKES. Phort pastry. ^ pint milk. 1 oz. chocolate. T7 oz. castor sugar. 9 po'era A small piece of butter. Dissolve the chocolate in the milk, add the sugar, butter and the egg yolks, and stir it over the lire till it is as smooth as thick cream. Add more milk if too thick. Line some patty- pans with the pastry, pour in the mixture, and bake them. When done, spread the top with beaten egg white and sugar, set for a minute in the oven, and serve. CHOCOLATE JELLY. Cette an Chocolat. i oz. isinglass. 1 oz. sugar. 1 quart mdk. Vanilla. 4 large t .blespoonsf ul grated chocolate. Rook the isinglass in the milk, add the chocolate and sugar. Boil for 10 minutes, stirring it all the time. When almost cold flavour it with vanilla, and beat thoroughly with an egg-whisk. Pour it into a wetted china mould and let it stand overnight. Turn it out, stick with cut up almonds, and pour whipped cream round it. BUTTER SWEETS. Ill G oz. sifted sugar. 5 eggs. LIGHT CHOCOLATE PUDDING. Pointing au Chocolat. 4 lb. chocolate. 1 pint milk.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.