Plain Chocolate

Ingredients

• one quart of milk
• two ounces of plain chocolate
• three table-spoonfuls of sugar
• two of water

Method

1. 1

   Heat milk in a double-boiler.

2. 2

   In a frying pan, stir chocolate, sugar, and water until smooth.

3. 3

   Stir into boiling milk and whisk for three minutes before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 435. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one ounce of plain chocolate to one quart of milk is about the right proportion, while others would like four BEVERAGES. 823 ounces of chocolate to a quart of milk. Again, some persons want the chocolate thick, and if enough plain chocolate be used to make it thick the drink will be bitter. Maillard's vanilla chocolate will make the drink thick and of good flavor. Mulling chocolate will make it thick. The small dasher that comes in chocolate pots is called a muller. This is worked up and down the same as one churns butter. The process froths and thickens the chocolate. If one have no muller, it will be well to make the chocolate in the double-boiler and beat it up with a whisk. Many folks think a cup of chocolate is improved by the addition of a table-spoonful of whipped cream. The cream can be whipped and drained and seasoned with a little sugar and vanilla ; or it may be used plain. Rich Chocolate. Put one quart of milk in the double-boiler, and on the fire. Put into a small frying-pan four ounces of Mail- lard's vanilla chocolate, scraped fine, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, and four table-spoonfuls of water. Stir this preparation over a hot fire until it becomes smooth and glossy, which will be in about one minute ; then stir the dissolved chocolate into the boiling milk. Whisk well, and then pour into a hot chocolate jug. Send to the table with a bowl of whipped cream. * Plain Chocolate. Put one quart of milk into the double-boiler, and on the fire. Scrape two ounces of Walter Baker & Co.'s or any plain chocolate. Put it in a small frying-pan with three table-spoonfuls of sugar and two of water

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