Chocolate Pie

Ingredients

• a plain flat cake
• loz. of Chocolate
• 1 breakfast-cupful of sugar
• 1 breakfast-cupful of boiling-milk
• the yolks of two eggs
• a little vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Prepare a thick flat cake.

2. 2

   Mix powdered chocolate and sugar, add boiling milk and beaten yolks, simmer for ten minutes.

3. 3

   Spread on the bottom half of the cake, top with the other half, sprinkle with caster sugar, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 332. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oz. of Chocolate in a small sugar-boiler, add a few drops of essence of vanilla and loz. For details respecting Culinary Processes , Utensils, Sauces, <kc., referred to, see under their special heads. 378 TEE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. Chocolate — continued. of caster sugar, and mix them over a slow fire. Shape this into olives. (This is done by taking sufficient paste between the forefinger and thumb of the right hand to make a small filbert ; put this in the palm of the left hand, and roll it with the index finger of the right in the shape of an olive.) When all the paste is used, roll the pastilles in white non- pareil comfits (“hundreds and thousands”), then place them in rows on a sheet of paper on a plate, and dry them in the screen. They must only be dried in a very moderate heat. (2) Put 8oz. of fine Chocolate in a saucepan, and stand it in a moderate oven to soften. Dissolve joz. of gum arabic in a little hot water, mix it with the Chocolate, and stir them both over a slow fire until quite smooth, then add 2oz. of caster sugar ; mix this well, and lay out the pastilles by dropping them from the spout of the sugar-boiler, using a curved piece of wire to cut each pastille off neatly as it drops upon a sheet of polished tin. Chocolate Pie. — Prepare a plain flat cake, having it so thick that when cooked it can be opened (that is, the top separated from the bottom). Make a mixture of loz.' of Chocolate finely powdered and 1 breakfast-cupful of sugar well mixed together ; then add gradually j breakfast-cupful of boiling- milk and the yolks of two eggs well beaten, with a little vanilla

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