Chocolate Custard

Ingredients

• 1 quart milk
• 6 yolks
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 3 ozs. grated chocolate
• 1 tea-spoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Add chocolate to milk and boil until dissolved.

2. 2

   Beat yolks, add sugar, and beat again.

3. 3

   Pour boiling milk over yolks and sugar while stirring.

4. 4

   Add vanilla and strain into a pudding-dish.

5. 5

   Bake in a slow oven for 45 minutes to an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The pudding and pastry book (1900) by Elizabeth Douglas, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Custard 1 quart milk G yolks 1 cup powdered sugar 3 ozs. grated chocolate 1 tea-spoon vanilla Add the chocolate to the milk and boil until it is thoroughly dissolved. Beat the yolks thoroughly. Add the sugar to them and beat again. Pour the boiling milk and chocolate over the yolks and sugar, stirring continually. Add the vanilla and strain into a pudding-dish. Bake in a very slow oven for forty-five minutes to an hour. Serve very cold. 21 The Pudding and "Cocoanut Custard h lb. grated fresh cocoanut | lb. powdered sugar 1 table-spoon rose-water Milk .j pint cream £ tea-spoon powdered cinnamon 2 yolks 4 whites If there is not half a pint of coeoannt milk, add to it cold milk until there is that amount. Into this stir the sugar and rose-water. Stir in the cream and well-beaten yolks. Beat the whites to a very stiff froth, and add them alternately with the grated cocoanut and cinnamon. Bake in cups set in hot water in a moderate oven. Coffee Custard Make as for chocolate custard, flavouring with a coffee-cup of good strong coffee instead of chocolate, and adding another yolk. "Creme Brulee 1 pint cream 4 yolks Scald the cream. Pour it slowly over the well- beaten yolks. Put the cream in a double-boiler and stir until it thickens, but do not let it boil. Pour into a shallow dish. 22 Pastry Book When it is cold sift powdered sugar thickly over it. Set in a very slow oven for quarter of an hour. Take it out. Brown the sugar with a salamander. Serve cold. "Creme Renversee If pints milk 6 yolks

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