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Plain Chocolate

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 4

Made in this way, chocolate is perfectly free from oily particles.

Presented as published in 1884. 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

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN CHOCOLATE. Scrape fine one ounce (one of the small squares) of Baker's chocolate, add to this two table-spoonfuls of sugar, and put into a saucepan with one table-spoonful of hot water. Stir over a hot fire for a minute or two until it is perfectly smooth and glossy, then stir it all into a quart of boiling milk

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