Chocolate Cream

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
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The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (4)
  1. Take a quarter of a pound of the best chocolate, and having scraped it fine, put to it as much water as will dissolve it.
  2. Then beat it half an hour in a mortar, and put in as much fine sugar as will sweeten it, and a pint and a half of cream.
  3. Mill it, and as the froth rises, lay it on a sieve.
  4. Put the remainder of your cream in posset-glasses, and lay the frothed cream upon them.
Original Text
TAKE a quarter of a pound of the best chocolate, and having scraped it fine, put to it as much water as will dissolve it. Then beat it half an hour in a mortar, and put in as much fine sugar as will sweeten it, and a pint and a half of cream. Mill it, and as the froth rises, lay it on a sieve. Put the remainder of your cream in posset-glasses, and lay the frothed cream upon them.
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