Chocolate Meringue

Ingredients

• Dissolve three tablespoonfuls corn-starch
• in two tablespoonfuls milk
• break up two ounces of sweetened chocolate
• the rest of a pint of milk
• the yolks of three eggs
• two large tablespoonfuls sugar
• one teaspoonful vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve corn-starch in milk; break up chocolate in a tin basin over boiling water, add the rest of the milk gradually, stir until smooth, then pour in the starch and stir till it thickens.

2. 2

   Add beaten yolks and sugar, stir until thicker than soft custard, cool, then add vanilla and pour into a glass dish.

3. 3

   Cover with meringue made of beaten egg whites and sugar before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dissolve three tablespoonftds corn-starch in two table- spoonfuls milk ; break up two ounces of sweetened choco- late in a tin basin over boiling water, and to it add gradually the rest of a pint of milk; stir until perfectly smooth, and when it is scalding, pour in the starch and stir till it thickens; then add the yolks of three QSZB •I DO beaten with two large tablespoon! uls sugar, and stir until 132 BIX LITTLE COOKS. much thicker than soft custard, and when somewhat cooled, add one teaspoonful vanilla, and pour it into a glasB dish. Just before serving (when it must be perfectly cold), cover it with a meringue made of the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, with four tablespoonfuls sugar. No. 112 — CHOCOLATE BLANC-MANGE. Make exactly as in recipe No. 109, with the addition of four heaping tablespoonfuls grated chocolate rubbed smooth in a little milk; this is to be added as soon as the gelatine is perfectly dissolved. No. 113 — CORN STARCH BLANC-MANGE. Heat one quart milk to boiling, then stir in four table- spoonfuls corn starch wet in a little cold water, with one saltspoon salt; boil five minutes, then add one small cup sugar, beaten with the yolk, of three eggs

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