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Chocolate Souffle

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 3

Another excellent chocolate souffle is made by melting one large tablespoon butter, stirring into it over the fire two tablespoons flour, adding a gill of milk, and when boiling remove from the stove, add nine tablespoons grated chocolate and a heaping tablespoon sugar, and drop in one by one the yolks of four eggs, stirring briskly all the time; whip whites of four eggs and stir in last very lightly.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

Nutrition per serving

448Calories
8 gProtein
66 gCarbs
21 gFat
Full nutrition (34 nutrients)
Calories448 kcal
Protein8.2 g
Carbohydrates66 g
Fiber3.4 g
Sugars48 g
Total Fat21 g
Saturated Fat8.5 g
Monounsaturated Fat5.8 g
Polyunsaturated Fat1.3 g
Omega-30 g
Cholesterol262 mg
Sodium74 mg
Potassium379 mg
Calcium105 mg
Iron4.4 mg
Magnesium86 mg
Phosphorus268 mg
Zinc1.7 mg
Copper0.6 mg
Manganese0.7 mg
Vitamin D1.6 mcg
Vitamin C0.1 mg
Vitamin A100 mcg
Vitamin E0.8 mg
Vitamin K2.7 mcg
Vitamin B60.1 mg
Vitamin B120.7 mcg
Thiamin (B1)0.1 mg
Riboflavin (B2)0.2 mg
Niacin (B3)0.8 mg
Folate44 mcg
Choline194 mg
Caffeine16 mg
Water67 g

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 142. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Break four eggs, whites and yolks sepa- rately ; add to the yolks three teaspoons sugar, one teaspoon flour ; thre/ounces chocolate, grated, an& rapiV five minWs; whip whites of eggs till firm and add them to the other ingredients. But- ter the souffle pan, put in the mixture and bake iu moderate oven fifteen or twenty minutes ; strew sugar over and serve immediately, carrying to table with hot salamander over the top. Another excel- lent chocolate souffle is made by melting one large tablespoon butter, stirring into it over the fife two tablespoons flour, adding a gill or milk, and when boiling remove from the stove, add nine tablespoons grated chocolate and a heaping tablespoon sugar, and drop in one by one the yolks of four eggs, stirring briskly all the time ; wnip whites of four eggs
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