Chocolate Creams

Ingredients

• Two cups of powdered sugar
• one quarter of a cup of milk
• Boil seven or eight minutes
• flavor with a little vanilla
• Cut up nearly a whole cake of chocolate
• add a few drops of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Boil two cups of powdered sugar and one quarter of a cup of milk for seven or eight minutes and pour into an earthen dish; flavor with a little vanilla and stir till it is thick and creamy, and cool enough to handle.

2. 2

   Shape into balls and lay on a flat dish.

3. 3

   Cut up nearly a whole cake of chocolate (not sweet), pour into a bowl and set in hot water.

4. 4

   When melted add a few drops of vanilla.

5. 5

   Drop in the creams one at a time and take out with two forks and place carefully on white paper.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CREAMS AND OTHER SWEETMEATS. In many homes the dish of bonbons and weets is always to be found temptingly arranged in some con- venient nook. While the confectioner's art is a study in itself, and his " creations" the outcome of a skilled training, yet there are numerous toothsome sweets that may be made at home. Here are recipes for some home-made candies: Marshmallows. — Soak a quarter of a pound of gum arabic in a half pint of water until soft, add to it a half pound of powdered sugar, stir all together and set in a saucepan until it is thick and white. Try it in water as soon as it thickens, and if it forms a firm but not hard ball, it is done. To make the marshmal- low more spongy beat the white of one egg and add to the paste. Flavor with orange flower. Pour the paste out on a pan, cover with corn starch, and, when cool, cut into squares. Chocolate Creams. — Tv;o cups of powdered sugar, one quarter of a cup of milk. Boil seven or eight min- utes and pour into an earthen dish; flavor with a little vanilla and stir till it is thick and creamy, and cool enough to handle. Shape into balls and lay on a flat dish. Cut up nearly a whole cake of chocolate (not sweet), pour into a bowl and set in hot water. When melted add a few drops of vanilla

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