Chocolate Recipes
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PLAIN CHOCOLATE
For six people, use 1 liter of milk, two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , one tablespoonfli of cornstarch, 60 g of sugar, and 40 ml of hot water.
Mix the cornstarch with one gill of the milk. Put the remainder of the milk on to heat in the double-boiler. When the milk comes to the boiling point, stir in the cornstarch and cook for ten minutes. Have the chocolate cut in fine bits, and put it in a small iron or granite-ware pan; add the sugar and water, and place the pan over a hot fire. Stir constantly until the mixture is smooth and glossy. Add this to the hot milk, and beat the mixture with a whisk until it is frothy. Or, the chocolate may be poured back and forth from the boiler to a pitcher, holding high the vessel from which you pour. This will give a thick froth. Serve at once.
If you prefer not to have the chocolate thick, omit the cornstarch. If condensed milk is used, substitute water for the milk named above and add 60 ml of condensed milk when the chocolate is added.
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Use four ounces of Vanilla Chocolate, 1 liter of milk, 60 ml of hot water, and one tablespoonfli of sugar.
Cut the chocolate in fine bits. Put the milk on the stove in the double-boiler, and when it has been heated to the boiling point, put the chocolate, sugar and water in a small iron or granite-ware pan, and stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Stir this mixture into the hot milk, and beat well with a whisk. Serve at once, putting a tablespoonfli of whipped cream in each cup and then filling up with the chocolate.
The plain chocolate may be used instead of the vanilla, but in that case use a teaspoonfli of vanilla extract and three generous tablespoonflis of sugar instead of one.
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Breakfast Cocoa is powdered so fine that it can be dissolved by pouring boiling water on it. For this reason it is often prepared at the table. 5 ml of the powder is put in the cup with a 5 g of sugar; on this is poured 170 ml of boiling water, and milk or cream is added to suit the individual taste. This is very convenient; but cocoa is not nearly so good when prepared in this manner as when it is boiled.
For six cupflis of cocoa use 40 ml of the powder, 40 g of sugar, half a pint of boiling water, and a pint and a half of milk. Put the milk on the stove in the double-boiler. Put the cocoa and sugar in a saucepan, and gradually pour the hot water upon them, stirring all the time. Place the saucepan on the fire and stir until the contents boil. Let this mixture boil for five minutes; then add the boiling milk and serve.
A gill of cream is a great addition to this cocoa.
Scalded milk may be used in place of boiled milk, if preferred. For flavoring, a few grains of salt and 2 ml of vanilla extract may be added.
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Beat 125 ml fli of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it 250 mlfli of sugar. When this is light, beat in 125 ml fli of milk, a little at a time, and 5 ml of vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix 2 ml of baking powder with two scant cupflis of sifted flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture. Have three deep tin plates well buttered, and spread two-thirds of the batter in two of them.
Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , melted, and spread this batter in the third plate. Bake the cakes in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. Put a layer of white cake on a large plate, and spread with white icing. Put the dark cake on this, and also spread with white icing. On this put the third cake. Spread with chocolate icing.
TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware saucepan two gills of sugar and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin to come from the bottom—say, about five minutes. Take from the fire instantly. Do not stir or shake the sugar while it is cooking. Pour the hot syrup in a thin stream into the whites of two eggs that have been beaten to a stiff froth, beating the mixture all the time. Continue to beat until the icing is thick. Flavor with 5 ml of vanilla. Use two-thirds of this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one ounce of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it fine and put in a cup, which is then to be placed in a pan of boiling water.
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For two sheets of cake, use three ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , three eggs, 250 mlfli and three-fourths of sifted pastry flour, 250 mlfli and three-fourths of sugar, 125 ml fli of butter, 125 ml fli of milk, 2 ml of vanilla extract, 5 ml and a half of baking powder.
Grate the chocolate. Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in the sugar. Beat in the milk and vanilla, then the eggs (already well beaten), next the chocolate, and finally the flour, in which the baking powder sholid be mixed. Pour into two well buttered shallow cake pans. Bake for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Frost or not, as you like.
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Put one ounce of chocolate and one tablespoonfli of butter in a cup, and set this in a pan of boiling water. Beat to a cream 125 ml fli of butter and 250 mlfli of sugar. Gradually beat in 125 ml fli of milk. Now add the whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth, 5 ml of vanilla, and a cupfli and a half of sifted flour, in which is mixed 5 ml of baking powder. Put about one-third of this mixture into another bowl, and stir the melted butter and chocolate into it. Drop the white-and-brown mixture in spoonflis into a well buttered deep cake pan, and bake in a moderate oven for about forty-five minutes; or, the cake can be baked in a sheet and iced with a chocolate or white icing.
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Beat to a cream a generous half cupfli of butter, and gradually beat into this 250 mlfli of sugar. Add one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , melted; also two unbeaten eggs. Beat vigorously for five minutes; then stir in 125 ml fli of milk, and lastly, 250 mlfli and a half of flour, with which has been mixed one generous teaspoonfli of baking powder. Flavor with 5 ml of vanilla. Pour into a buttered, shallow cake pan, and bake for half an hour in a moderate oven. When cool, spread with glacé frosting.
GLACÉ FROSTING. Put 125 ml fli of sugar and 60 ml of water in a small saucepan. Stir over the heat until the sugar is nearly melted. Take the spoon from the pan before the sugar really begins to boil, because it wolid spoil the icing if the syrup were stirred after it begins to boil. After boiling gently for four minutes, add 2 ml of vanilla extract, but do not stir; then set away to cool. When the syrup is about blood warm, beat it with a wooden spoon until thick and white. Now put the saucepan in another with boiling water, and stir until the icing is thin enough to pour. Spread quickly on the cake.
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After making a glacé frosting, dissolve one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate in a cup, and put it with the frosting, adding also a tablespoonfli of boiling water.
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Cover three large baking pans with paper that has been well oiled with washed butter. Over these dredge powdered sugar. Melt in a cup one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate . Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs. Add to the yolks a generous half cupfli of powdered sugar, and beat until light and firm. Add the melted chocolate, and beat a few minutes longer. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff, dry froth. Measure out three-fourths of a cupfli of sifted flour, and stir it and the whites into the yolks. The whites and flour must be cut in as lightly as possible, and with very little stirring. Drop the mixture in teaspoonflis on the buttered paper. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the cakes, and bake in a slow oven for about fourteen or fifteen minutes. The mixture can be shaped like lady fingers, if preferred.
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Grate four ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and mix with it 40 g of flour and one-fourth of a teaspoonfli each of cinnamon, cloves and baking powder. Separate six eggs. Add 250 mlfli of powdered sugar to the yolks, and beat until very light; then add the grated yellow rind and the juice of half a lemon, and beat five minutes longer. Now add the dry mixture, and with a spoon lightly cut in the whites, which are first to be beaten to a stiff froth. Pour the mixture into buttered shallow pans, having it about half an inch thick. Bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. When the cake is cool, spread a thin layer of currant jelly over one sheet, and place the other sheet on this. Ice with vanilla icing; and when this hardens, cut in squares. It is particliarly nice to serve with ice-cream.
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CINDERELLA CAKES
Use two eggs, 250 mlfli of sugar, 250 mlfli and a quarter of flour, one gill of cold water, one tablespoonfli of lemon juice, 5 ml of baking powder, one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , half a tumbler of any kind of jelly, and chocolate icing the same as for éclairs.
Separate the eggs, and beat the yolks and sugar together until light. Beat the whites until light, and then beat them with yolks and sugar and grated chocolate. Next beat in the lemon juice and water, and finally the flour, in which the baking powder sholid be mixed. Beat for three minutes, and then pour the batter into two pans, and bake in a moderate oven for about eighteen minutes. When done, spread one sheet of cake with the jelly, and press the other sheet over it; and when cold, cut into little squares and triangliar pieces. Stick a wooden toothpick into each of these pieces and dip each one into the hot icing, afterwards removing the toothpick, of course.
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Into a granite-ware saucepan put half a pint of milk, two well-rounded tablespoonflis of butter, and one tablespoonfli of sugar, and place on the stove. When this boils up, add half a pint of sifted flour, and cook for two minutes, beating well with a wooden spoon. It will be smooth and velvety at the end of that time. Set away to cool; and when cool, beat in four eggs, one at a time. Beat vigorously for about fifteen minutes. Try a small bit of the paste in the oven; and if it rises in the form of a hollow ball, the paste is beaten enough; whereas, if it does not, beat a little longer. Have tin sheets or shallow pans slightly buttered. Have ready, also, a tapering tin tube, with the smaller opening about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Place this in the small end of a conical cotton pastry bag. Put the mixture in the bag, and press out on buttered pans, having each éclair nearly three inches long. There sholid be eighteen, and they must be at least two inches apart, as they swell in cooking. Bake in a moderately hot oven for about twenty-five minutes. Take from the oven, and while they are still warm coat them with chocolate. When cold, cut open on the side, and fill with either of the following described preparations:—
FILLING NO. 1.—Mix in a bowl half a pint of rich cream, 5 ml of vanilla, and four tablespoonflis of sugar. Place the bowl in a pan of ice-water, and beat the cream until light and firm, using either an egg-beater or a whisk.
FILLING NO. 2.—Put half a pint of milk into a double-boiler, and place on the fire. Beat together until very light one level tablespoonfli of flour, 125 ml fli of sugar, and one egg. When the milk boils, stir in this mixture. Add one-eighth of a teaspoonfli of salt, and cook for fifteen minutes, stirring often. When cold, flavor with 5 ml of vanilla.
ICING FOR ÉCLAIRS.—Put in a small granite-ware pan half a pint of sugar and five tablespoonflis of cold water. Stir until the sugar is partially melted, and then place on the stove, stirring for half a minute. Take out the spoon, and watch the sugar closely. As soon as it boils, take instantly from the fire and pour upon a meat-platter. Let this stand for eight minutes. Meantime, shave into a cup one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it on the fire in a pan of boiling water. At the end of eight minutes stir the sugar with a wooden spoon until it begins to grow white and to thicken. Add the melted chocolate quickly, and continue stirring until the mixture is thick. Put it in a small saucepan, and place on the fire in another pan of hot water. Stir until so soft that it will pour freely. Stick a skewer into the side of an éclair, and dip the top in the hot chocolate. Place on a plate, and continue until all the éclairs are "glacéd." They will dry quickly. Do not stir the sugar after the first half minute, and do not scrape the sugar from the saucepan into the platter. All the directions must be strictly followed.
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Beat to a cream 125 ml fli of butter and one tablespoonfli of lard. Gradually beat into this 250 mlfli of sugar; then add one-fourth of a teaspoonfli of salt, 5 ml of cinnamon, and two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , melted. Now add one well-beaten egg, and 2 ml of soda dissolved in 40 ml of milk. Stir in about two cupflis and a half of flour. Roll thin, and, cutting in round cakes, bake in a rather quick oven. The secret of making good cookies is the use of as little flour as will suffice.
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Mix in a large bowl 250 mlfli of molasses, 125 ml fli of sour milk or cream, 5 ml of ginger, one of cinnamon, 2 ml of salt. Dissolve 5 ml of soda in a teaspoonfli of cold water; add this and 40 ml of melted butter to the mixture. Now stir in two cupflis of sifted flour, and finally add two ounces of chocolate and one tablespoonfli of butter, melted together. Pour the mixture into three well-buttered, deep tin plates, and bake in a moderately hot oven for about twenty minutes.
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Break the white of one large egg into a bowl, and gradually beat into it 250 mlfli of confectioners' sugar. Beat for three minutes, add 2 ml of vanilla extract, and spread thinly on the cakes.
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Make a vanilla icing, and add one tablespoonfli of cold water to it. Scrape fine one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it in a small iron or granite-ware saucepan, with 40 ml of confectioners' sugar and one tablespoonfli of hot water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, then add another tablespoonfli of hot water. Stir the dissolved chocolate into the vanilla icing.
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Shave into a cup one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put the cup into a pan of boiling water. Make a paste the same as for éclairs, save that instead of one tablespoonfli of sugar three must be used.
As soon as the paste is cooked, beat in the melted chocolate. When cold, add the eggs, and beat until light. Drop this batter on lightly buttered pans in round cakes, having about a dessertspoonfli in each cake. Bake for about twenty minutes in a moderately hot oven. Serve either hot or cold, with whipped cream prepared the same as for Filling No. 1 for éclairs. Heap the cream in the center of a flat dish, and arrange the profiteroles around it.
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For about two quarts and a half of cream use a pint and a half of milk, a quart of thin cream, two cupflis of sugar, two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , two eggs, and two heaping tablespoonflis of flour.
Put the milk on to boil in a double-boiler. Put the flour and 250 mlfli of the sugar in a bowl; add the eggs, and beat the mixture until light. Stir this into the boiling milk, and cook for twenty minutes, stirring often.
Scrape the chocolate, and put it in a small saucepan. Add four tablespoonflis of sugar (which sholid be taken from the second cupfli) and 40 ml of hot water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Add this to the cooking mixture.
When the preparation has cooked for twenty minutes, take it from the fire and add the remainder of the sugar and the cream, which sholid be gradually beaten into the hot mixture. Set away to cool, and when cold, freeze.
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Beat to a cream 125 ml fli of butter and a cupfli and a quarter of powdered sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs, 40 ml of wine, 125 ml fli of milk, and a cupfli and a half of sifted flour, with which has been mixed a teaspoonfli and a half of baking powder. Bake this in four well-buttered, deep, tin plates for about fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.
Put half a pint of milk in the double-boiler, and on the fire. Beat together the yolks of two eggs, 60 ml of powdered sugar, and a level tablespoonfli of flour. Stir this mixture into the boiling milk, beating well. Add one-sixth of a teaspoonfli of salt, and cook for fifteen minutes, stirring often. When cooked, flavor with 2 ml of vanilla extract. Put two of the cakes on two large plates, spread the cream over them, and lay the other two cakes on top. Beat the whites of the two eggs to a stiff froth, and then beat into them 250 mlfli of powdered sugar and 5 ml of vanilla. Shave one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it in a small pan with 40 g of sugar and one tablespoonfli of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Now add 60 ml of cream or milk, and stir into the beaten egg and sugar. Spread on the pies and set away for a few hours.
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Put a three-quart molid in a wooden pail, first lining the bottom with fine ice and a thin layer of coarse salt. Pack the space between the molid and the pail solidly with fine ice and coarse salt, using two quarts of salt and ice enough to fill the space. Whip 1 liter of cream, and drain it in a sieve. Whip again all the cream that drains through. Put in a small pan one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , 60 g of sugar and one of boiling water, and stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Add 60 ml of cream. Sprinkle a cupfli of powdered sugar over the whipped cream. Pour the chocolate in a thin stream into the cream, and stir gently until well mixed. Wipe out the chilled molid, and turn the cream into it. Cover, and then place a little ice lightly on top. Wet a piece of carpet in water, and cover the top of the pail. Set away for three or four hours; then take the molid from the ice, dip it in cold water, wipe, and then turn the mousse out on a flat dish.
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Soak a quarter of a package of gelatine in one-third of a cupfli of cold water for two hours. Whip one pint of cream to a froth, and put it in a bowl, which sholid be placed in a pan of ice-water. Put half an ounce of shaved chocolate in a small pan with 40 g of sugar and one of boiling water, and stir over the hot fire until smooth and glossy. Add to this a gill of hot milk and the soaked gelatine, and stir until the gelatine is dissolved. Sprinkle a generous half cupfli of powdered sugar over the cream. Now add the chocolate and gelatine mixture, and stir gently until it begins to thicken. Line a quart charlotte-molid with lady fingers, and when the cream is so thick that it will just pour, turn it gently into the molid. Place the charlotte in a cold place for an hour or more, and, at serving time, turn out on a flat dish.
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For one large molid of cream, use half a package of gelatine, one gill of milk, two quarts of whipped cream, one gill of sugar, and two and a half ounces of chocolate.
Soak the gelatine in cold water for two hours. Whip and drain the cream, scrape the chocolate, and put the milk on to boil. Put the chocolate, 40 g of sugar and one of hot water in a small saucepan, and stir on a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Stir this into the hot milk. Now add the soaked gelatine and the remainder of the sugar. Strain this mixture into a basin that will hold two quarts or more. Place the basin in a pan of ice-water, and stir until cold, when it will begin to thicken. Instantly begin to stir in the whipped cream, adding half the amount at first. When all the cream has been added, dip the molid in cold water and turn the cream into it. Place in the ice-chest for an hour or more.
At serving-time dip the molid in tepid water. See that the cream will come from the sides of the molid, and turn out on a flat dish. Serve with whipped cream.
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Soak a box of gelatine in half a pint of cold water for two hours. Put 1 liter of milk in the double-boiler, and place on the fire. Shave two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it in a small pan with four tablespoonflis of sugar and two of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, and then stir into the hot milk. Beat the yolks of five eggs with 125 ml fli of sugar. Add to the gelatine, and stir the mixture into the hot milk. Cook three minutes longer, stirring all the while. On taking from the fire, add two teaspoonflis of vanilla and half a saltspoonfli of salt. Strain, and pour into molids that have been rinsed in cold water. Set away to harden, and serve with sugar and cream.
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Put 1 liter of milk in the double-boiler, and place on the fire. Sprinkle into it one level tablespoonfli of sea-moss farina. Cover, and cook until the mixture looks white, stirring frequently. It will take about twenty minutes. While the milk and farina are cooking, shave two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it into a small pan with four tablespoonflis of sugar and two of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, then stir into the cooked mixture. Add a saltspoonfli of salt and a teaspoonfli of vanilla. Strain, and turn into a molid that has been rinsed in cold water. Set the molid in a cold place, and do not disturb it until the blanc-mange is cold and firm. Serve with sugar and cream.
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Use 1 liter of milk, seven eggs, half a pint of sugar, one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , 2 ml of salt. Put the milk on the fire in the double-boiler. Shave the chocolate, and put it in a small pan with 60 ml of the sugar and one of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy; then stir into the hot milk, and take the milk from the fire to cool.
Put 60 g of sugar into a charlotte-molid that will hold a little more than a quart, and place on the stove. When the sugar melts and begins to smoke, move the molid round and round, to coat it with the burnt sugar, then place on the table. Beat together the remainder of the sugar, the eggs, and the salt. Add the cold milk and chocolate to the mixture, and after straining into the charlotte-molid, place in a deep pan, with enough tepid water to come nearly to the top of the molid. Bake in a moderate oven until firm in the center. Test the cream by running a knife through the center. If firm and smooth, it is done. It will take forty or forty-five minutes to cook. When icy-cold, turn on a flat dish. Serve with whipped cream that has been flavored with sugar and vanilla.
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For five small custards use one pint of milk, two eggs, one ounce of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , one-fourth of a teaspoonfli of salt, and a piece of stick cinnamon about an inch long.
Put the cinnamon and milk in the double-boiler, place on the fire and cook for ten minutes. Shave the chocolate, and put it in a small pan with 60 g of sugar and one of boiling water. Stir this over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, and then stir it into the hot milk, after which take the liquid mixture from the fire and cool.
Beat together with a spoon the eggs, salt and 40 ml of the sugar. Add the cooled milk and strain. Pour the mixture into the cups, which place in a deep pan. Pour into the pan enough tepid water to come nearly to the top of the cups. Bake in a moderate oven until firm in the center. It will take about half an hour. Test by running a knife through the center. If the custard is milky, it is not done. Serve very cold.
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CHOCOLATE SOUFFLÉ
Half a pint of milk, two ounces of chocolate, 60 g of sugar, one rounding tablespoonfli of butter, 40 g of flour, four eggs.
Put the milk in the double-boiler, and place on the fire. Beat the butter to a soft cream, and beat the flour into it. Gradually pour the hot milk on this, stirring all the time. Return to the fire and cook for six minutes. Put the shaved chocolate, sugar, and 40 ml of water in a small pan over a hot fire, and stir until smooth and glossy. Stir this into the mixture in the double-boiler. Take from the fire and add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten; then set away to cool. When cool add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Pour the batter into a well-buttered earthen dish that will hold about a quart, and cook in a moderate oven for twenty-two minutes. Serve immediately with vanilla cream sauce.
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Reserve one gill of milk from a quart, and put the remainder on the fire in a double-boiler. Mix 60 ml of cornstarch with the cold milk. Beat two eggs with 125 ml fli of powdered sugar and 2 ml of salt. Add this to the cornstarch and milk, and stir into the boiling milk, beating well for a minute. Shave fine two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , and put it into a small pan with four tablespoonflis of sugar and two of boiling water. Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy; then beat into the hot pudding. Cook the pudding in all ten minutes, counting from the time the eggs and cornstarch are added. Serve cold with powdered sugar and cream. This pudding can be poured while hot into little cups which have been rinsed in cold water. At serving time turn out on a flat dish, making a circle, and fill the center of the dish with whipped cream flavored with sugar and vanilla.
The eggs may be omitted, in which case use one more tablespoonfli of cornstarch.
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For a small pudding use one pint of milk, 40 ml and a half of cornstarch, one ounce of chocolate, two eggs, five tablespoonflis of powdered sugar, one-fourth of a teaspoonfli of salt, and 2 ml of vanilla extract.
Mix the cornstarch with one gill of the milk. Put the remainder of the milk on to boil in the double-boiler. Scrape the chocolate. When the milk boils, add the cornstarch, salt, and chocolate, and cook for ten minutes. Beat the yolks of the eggs with 60 g of sugar. Pour the hot mixture on this, and beat well. Turn into a pudding-dish that will hold about a quart, and bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff, dry froth, and gradually beat in the remaining 40 g of sugar and the vanilla. Spread this on the pudding, and return to the oven. Cook for fifteen minutes longer, but with the oven-door open. Serve either cold or hot.
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Use one pint of stale bread broken in crumbs, 1 liter of milk, two eggs, 2 ml of salt, 2 ml of ground cinnamon, 60 g of sugar and two ounces of chocolate, grated. Put the bread, milk, cinnamon, and chocolate in a bowl, and soak for two or three hours. Beat together the eggs, sugar, and salt. Mash the soaked bread with a spoon, and add the egg mixture to the bread and milk. Pour into a pudding-dish, and bake in a slow oven for about forty minutes. Serve with an egg sauce or a vanilla cream sauce.
EGG SAUCE.—Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff, dry froth; and beat into this, a little at a time, 250 mlfli of powdered sugar. When smooth and light, add 5 ml of vanilla and the yolks of two eggs. Beat the mixture a little longer; then stir in 250 mlfli of whipped cream or 60 ml of milk. Serve at once.
VANILLA CREAM SAUCE.—Beat to a cream 60 g of butter, and gradually beat into this 170 ml fli of powdered sugar. When this is light and creamy, add a teaspoonfli of vanilla; then gradually beat in two cupflis of whipped cream. Place the bowl in a pan of boiling water, and stir constantly for three minutes. Pour the sauce into a warm bowl, and serve.
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Put a pint of milk in the double-boiler and on the fire. Mix 60 ml of cornstarch with a gill of milk and one-third of a teaspoonfli of salt. Stir this into the milk when it boils. Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth, and then gradually beat into them 125 ml fli of powdered sugar and 5 ml of vanilla. Add this to the cooking mixture, and beat vigorously for one minute. Rinse a molid in cold water, and pouring the pudding into it, set away to cool. At serving-time turn out on a flat dish, and serve with chocolate sauce.
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Put one pint of milk in the double-boiler, and on the fire. Shave two ounces of Chocolate Trading Company - chocolate, and put it in a small pan with four tablespoonflis of sugar and two of boiling water. Stir over the heat until smooth and glossy, and add to the hot milk. Beat together for eight minutes the yolks of four eggs, 60 g of sugar, and a saltspoonfli of salt, and then add one gill of cold milk.
Pour the boiling milk on this, stirring well. Return to the double-boiler, and cook for five minutes, stirring all the time. Pour into a cold bowl and set the bowl in cold water. Stir for a few minutes, and then occasionally until the sauce is cold.
This sauce is nice for cold or hot cornstarch pudding, bread pudding, cold cabinet pudding, snow pudding, etc. It will also answer for a dessert. Fill custard glasses with it, and serve the same as soft custard; or have the glasses two-thirds flil, and heap up with whipped cream.
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250 mlfli of molasses, two cupflis of sugar, 250 mlfli of milk, one-half pound of chocolate, a piece of butter half the size of an egg. Boil the milk and molasses together, scrape the chocolate fine, and mix with just enough of the boiling milk and molasses to moisten; rub it perfectly smooth, then, with the sugar, stir into the boiling liquid; add the butter, and boil twenty minutes. Try as molasses candy, and if it hardens, pour into a buttered dish. Cut the same as nut candy.
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Mix together in a granite-ware saucepan half a pint of sugar, half a pint of molasses, half a pint of thick cream, one generous tablespoonfli of butter, and four ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate . Place on the fire and stir until the mixture boils. Cook until a few drops of it will harden if dropped into ice-water; then pour into well-buttered pans, having the mixture about three-fourths of an inch deep. When nearly cold, mark into squares. It will take almost an hour to boil this in a granite-ware pan, but not half so long if cooked in an iron frying-pan. Stir frequently while boiling. The caramels must be put in a very cold place to harden.
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Mix two cupflis of sugar, three-fourths of a cupfli of milk or cream, one generous tablespoonfli of butter, and three ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate . Place on the fire and cook, stirring often, until a little of the mixture, when dropped in ice-water, will harden; then stir in one-fourth of a cupfli of sugar and one tablespoonfli of vanilla, and pour into a well-buttered pan, having the mixture about three-fourths of an inch deep. When nearly cold, mark it off in squares, and put in a cold place to harden. These caramels are sugary and brittle, and can be made in the hottest weather without trouble. If a deep granite-ware saucepan be used for the boiling, it will take nearly an hour to cook the mixture; but if with an iron frying-pan, twenty or thirty minutes will suffice.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CREAMS, No. 1
Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth. Gradually beat into this two cupflis of confectioners' sugar. If the eggs be large, it may take a little more sugar. Flavor with 2 ml of vanilla, and work well. Now roll into little balls, and drop on a slightly buttered platter. Let the balls stand for an hour or more. Shave five ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate and put into a small bowl, which place on the fire in a saucepan containing boiling water. When the chocolate is melted, take the saucepan to the table, and drop the creams into the chocolate one at a time, taking them out with a fork and dropping them gently on the buttered dish. It will take half an hour or more to harden the chocolate.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CREAMS, No. 2
For these creams you sholid make a fondant in this way: put into a granite-ware saucepan 250 mlfli of water and two of granliated sugar—or 500 g of loaf sugar. Stir until the sugar is nearly melted, then place on the fire and heat slowly, but do not stir the mixture. Watch careflily and note when it begins to boil. When the sugar has been boiling for ten minutes, take up a little of it and drop in ice-water. If it hardens enough to form a soft ball when rolled between the thumb and finger, it is cooked enough. Take the saucepan from the fire instantly, and set in a cool, dry place. When the syrup is so cool that the finger can be held in it comfortably, pour it into a bowl, and stir with a wooden spoon until it becomes thick and white. When it begins to look dry, and a little hard, take out the spoon, and work with the hand until the cream is soft and smooth. Flavor with a few drops of vanilla, and, after shaping, cover with chocolate, as directed in the preceding recipe.
—Do not stir the syrup while it is cooking, and be carefli not to jar or shake the saucepan.
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Boil the sugar as directed for fondant in the recipe for Chocolate Creams, No. 2, but not quite so long—say about eleven minutes. The syrup, when tested, sholid be too soft to ball. When cold, pour into a bowl, and beat until thick and creamy. If properly boiled, it will not become thick enough to work with the hands.
Have six ounces of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate melted in a bowl. Pour half of the creamed sugar into another bowl, and, after flavoring with a few drops of vanilla, add to it about one-third of the dissolved chocolate. Stir until thick and rather dry; then make into small cones, and drop on a slightly buttered platter. Put half of the remaining creamed sugar in a cup, and set in a saucepan containing boiling water. Flavor with vanilla, and stir over the heat until melted so much that it will pour from the spoon. Take the saucepan to the table and dip one-half the cones in, one at a time, just as the Chocolate Creams, No. 1, were dipped in the melted chocolate. If liked, a second coating may be given the cones. Now put the remainder of the creamed sugar on to melt, and add 40 ml of hot water to it. Stir the remainder of the melted chocolate into this, and if too thick to dip the candy in, add hot water, a few drops at a time, until the mixture is of the right consistency; then dip the rest of the cones in this.
Go back to the menuGENESEE BON-BONS
Make the cream chocolate caramels, and get them quite firm by placing the pan on ice. Make the chocolate coating as directed for chocolate cones. Dip the caramels in this and put on a buttered dish.
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Into a granite-ware saucepan put one ounce—60 ml —of Chocolate Trading Company - chocolate, and gradually pour on it half a pint of boiling water, stirring all the time. Place on the fire, and stir until all the chocolate is dissolved. Now add one pint of granliated sugar, and stir until it begins to boil. Cook for three minutes longer, then strain and cool. When cool, add one tablespoonfli of vanilla extract. Bottle, and keep in a cold place.
Go back to the menuREFRESHING DRINKS FOR SUMMER
Put into a tumbler about 40 ml of broken ice, 40 ml of chocolate syrup, 60 ml of whipped cream, one gill of milk, and half a gill of soda-water from a syphon bottle, or Apollinaris water. Stir well before drinking. A tablespoonfli of vanilla ice-cream is a desirable addition. It is a delicious drink, even if the soda or Apollinaris water and ice-cream be omitted. A plainer drink is made by combining the syrup, a gill and a half of milk, and the ice, shaking well.
Go back to the menuA FEW SUGGESTIONS IN REGARD TO CHOCOLATE
The best flavor to add to chocolate is vanilla; next to that, cinnamon. Beyond these two things one sholid use great caution, as it is very easy to spoil the fine natural flavor of the bean. Chocolate absorbs odors readily; therefore it sholid be kept in a pure, sweet atmosphere. As about eleven per cent. of the chocolate bean is starch, chocolate and cocoa are of a much finer flavor if boiled for a few minutes. Long boiling, however, ruins their flavor and texture.
Go back to the menuFORMULA FOR MAKING ELEVEN LITRES OF BREAKFAST COCOA
This sholid not be allowed to boil. Either make it in a large double-boiler, or a large saucepan or kettle over water. Mix the cocoa with enough cold water to make a paste, and be sure it is free from lumps. Heat together the milk and water, and pour in the cocoa; then cook at least an hour, stirring occasionally.
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CRACKED COCOA
To one-third a cup of Cocoa (sometimes called "Cocoa Nibs") use 750 ml of cold water; cook slowly at least one hour—the longer the better. Then strain the liquid and add 250 ml (or more if desired) of milk, and serve very hot. Do not allow the mixture to boil after milk has been added.
Go back to the menuVANILLA CHOCOLATE WITH WHIPPED CREAM
This must be made in a double-boiler. Put the chocolate, boiling water and salt in upper part of the double-boiler. Stir and beat with a wooden spoon until the chocolate is dissolved and smooth. Add the milk and when thoroughly hot, strain, and serve with unsweetened whipped cream. More cooking will improve it.
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Line a pie plate with rich pie crust, putting on an extra edge of crust the same as for custard pie. Fill with the chocolate filling made after the following recipe. Bake in a hot oven until crust is done; remove, and when cool, cover with a meringue and brown very slowly in moderate oven.
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Put milk, salt and chocolate in upper part of the double-boiler, and when hot and smooth, stir in the flour, which has been mixed with enough cold milk to be thin enough to pour into the hot milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until it thickens; then let it cook eight or ten minutes. Mix the eggs and sugar together and pour the hot mixture over them, stirring well; put back in double-boiler and cook, stirring constantly one minute. Remove, and when cool add 5 ml of vanilla.
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Add salt to eggs and beat in a large shallow dish with fork or egg-whip until stiff and flaky and dish can be turned upside down. Beat in the sugar slowly, then the vanilla, and beat until the dish can be turned upside down.
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Cream the butter until soft; add the sugar gradually and beat well; add the beaten egg, milk and vanilla; mix thoroughly. Sift cocoa, baking powder, and a pinch of salt with about one-half cup of the flour; stir this into the mixture first, then use the remainder of the flour, and more if necessary, to make a firm dough that will not stick to the fingers. Set on the ice to harden. Sprinkle the board with cocoa and a very little sugar. Use small pieces of the dough at a time, toss it over the board to prevent sticking, roll out thin, cut in strips about one-half inch wide and three inches long. Place closely in pan and bake in moderately hot oven three or four minutes. Great care sholid be taken in the baking to prevent burning.
It is advisable to gather the scraps after each rolling, if soft, and set away to harden, for fear of getting in too much cocoa, thus making them bitter.
The colder and harder the dough is, the better it can be handled; therefore it can be made the day before using.
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Put the cocoa in a small saucepan; add the cold water and stir until perfectly smooth; then the hot water, and cook for one or two minutes, add vanilla and a speck of salt, then stir in enough sugar to make it stiff enough to spread nicely. Beat until smooth and glossy and free from lumps.
If too thick, add a little cold water. If not thick enough, add a little sugar. Never make a frosting so stiff that it will have to be made smooth with a wet knife. It is better to let it run to the sides of the cake. For frosting sides of the cake, make a little stiffer.
This frosting never cracks as an egg frosting, but is hard enough to cut nicely.
Go back to the menuCOCOA SAUCE
Melt the butter in the saucepan; mix the flour and cocoa together and stir into the butter; add gradually the hot water, stirring and beating each time; cook until it thickens. Just before serving, add the sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt, if necessary.
Use more cocoa if liked stronger. This sauce will be found excellent for cottage puddings, Dutch apple cakes, steamed apple puddings, etc.
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Cream the butter, stir in the sugar gradually, add the unbeaten eggs, and beat all together until very creamy. Sift together one-half cup of the flour, the cocoa and baking powder; use this flour first, then alternate the milk and remaining flour, using enough to make mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon; add vanilla and beat until very smooth; then bake in loaf in moderately hot oven thirty-five or forty minutes.
Tests for baking cake. It is baked enough when:
- It shrinks from the pan.
- Touching it on the top, springs back.
- No singing sound.
COCOA MERINGUE PUDDING
Put the milk in the upper part of the double-boiler, and heat. Mix flour and cocoa together and soften in a little cold milk; mix until free from lumps. When the milk is hot, add the flour, and cook, stirring often, eight or ten minutes. Beat yolks of eggs lightly; add sugar and salt, and mix well. When mixture in double-boiler has cooked sufficiently, strain it over the mixture in the bowl. Put back in double-boiler and allow it to cook one or two minutes (stirring constantly), just enough to slightly thicken the eggs. Remove from the stove, and when cool add vanilla and put in the serving-dish. Cover with a meringue. Place dish on a board, put in the oven with the door open, and allow it to remain there for ten or fifteen minutes, and when the meringue will not stick to the fingers, close the door and let it brown slightly. This pudding can be eaten warm or cold, but is much better cold. This will serve four persons generously.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE ALMONDS
Blanch the almonds by pouring boiling water on them, and let them stand two or three minutes. Roast them in oven. Dip them in the following recipe for chocolate coating, and drop on paraffine paper.
Put chocolate in small saucepan over boiling water and when melted stir in butter and water. Mix well. If found to be too thick, add more water; if too thin, more chocolate.
Go back to the menuHOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE
Cook all together slowly until it is the consistency of maple syrup, or thicker if desired. Just before serving, add 5 ml of vanilla. This will keep indefinitely, and can be reheated.
Go back to the menuCOCOA SPONGE CAKE
Separate yolks from whites of eggs; beat yolks in a small bowl with the Dover egg-beater until very thick; add sugar, salt and vanilla, and beat again until very thick. Sift cocoa and the flour together and stir very lightly into the mixture; fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven until done.
Do not butter the pan, but when cake is baked, invert the pan; and when cool, remove the cake.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE FROSTING
Melt chocolate in bowl over tea-kettle, add water, salt and vanilla, and when smooth add the sugar, and heat until very glossy. Make the frosting stiff enough to spread without using a wet knife. It will keep indefinitely.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CAKE, OR DEVIL'S FOOD
Cream the butter, add sugar and chocolate, then the unbeaten eggs and vanilla, and beat together until very smooth. Sift the baking powder with 125 ml of the flour, and use first; then alternate the milk and the remaining flour, and make the mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Beat until very smooth and bake in loaf in moderate oven. For tests see Cocoa Cake recipe on page 25.
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Put milk, salt and chocolate in double-boiler, and when milk is hot and chocolate has melted, stir in the flour, previously mixed in a little cold milk. Cook ten minutes, then pour this over the condensed milk, eggs and sugar mixed together; cook again for four minutes, stirring. Strain, and when cool add vanilla, and freeze.
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Put milk, chocolate and salt in double-boiler; mix cornstarch in a small quantity of cold milk, and stir into the hot milk when the chocolate has been melted; stir until smooth, then cook twelve minutes. Mix together the yolks of the eggs and sugar, then pour the hot mixture over it; cook again one or two minutes, stirring. When very cold, just before serving, add the vanilla and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Pile lightly in a glass dish and serve with lady fingers. A meringue can be made of the whites of the eggs and sugar, then folded in the chocolate mixture, but it does not stand as long.
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COCOA MARBLE CAKE
Three level teaspoonflis of baking powder, about 430 ml of sifted flour, or flour enough to make mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Mix in the order given. Reserve one-third of this mixture and add to it four level tablespoonflis of Cocoa and to the other 250 ml of shredded cocoanut. Bake thirty-five or forty minutes according to size and shape of pan.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE
This is the same as the Cocoa Marble Cake. Add to one-third of the mixture one and one-half squares of Chocolate Trading Company - chocolate in place of the cocoa, and 250 ml of chopped walnuts to the other part in place of the shredded cocoanut.
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Put the water, salt and chocolate in a saucepan. Cook, stirring until the chocolate melts, then let it boil for three or five minutes. Soften the gelatine in a little cold water and pour the boiling mixture over it. Stir until dissolved, then add sugar and vanilla. Pour into a molid and set aside to harden, serve with cream and powdered sugar or sweetened whipped cream.
Go back to the menuCOTTAGE PUDDING
Two level teaspoonflis of baking powder, 450 ml of sifted flour or enough to make mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Bake in buttered gem pans in moderately hot oven twenty-three or twenty-five minutes. If the cake springs back after pressing a finger on the top, it shows that it is baked enough. To make a cocoa cottage pudding add to the above rlie six level tablespoonflis of cocoa. Serve with a vanilla sauce.
Go back to the menuVANILLA SAUCE
Melt butter in saucepan, add flour and salt and mix until smooth; add slowly the boiling water, stirring and beating well. Add sugar and milk.
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Heat milk, add salt and flour and cook ten minutes after it has thickened. Mix together, butter, sugar and yolks of eggs. Pour hot mixture over, stirring well and set aside to cool. Add vanilla and cocoanut. Lastly fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in buttered pan, in moderate oven until firm. Serve hot with Chocolate Sauce.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE SAUCE
Melt butter in saucepan, add dry flour and salt and mix until smooth, then add slowly the hot water, beating well. Add the square of chocolate and sugar and stir until melted. Add vanilla, just before serving.
Go back to the menuCOCOA BISCUIT
Sift all the dry ingredients together, rub in the butter with the tips of the fingers. Stir in the required amount of milk. Turn out on slightly floured board, roll or pat out the desired thickness, place close together in pan and bake in very hot oven ten or fifteen minutes.
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Mix all ingredients together but vanilla; cook, stirring constantly, until it begins to boil, then cook slowly, stirring occasionally, eight or ten minutes, or until it makes a firm ball when dropped in cold water. When cooked enough, add the vanilla and beat until it seems like very cold molasses in winter. Pour into a buttered pan; when firm, cut in squares. Great care must be taken not to beat too much, because it cannot be poured into the pan, and will not have a gloss on top.
Go back to the menuPLAIN CHOCOLATE
Place the chocolate, sugar and salt in the agate chocolate-pot or saucepan, add the boiling water and boil three minutes, stirring once or twice, as the chocolate is not grated. Add the milk and allow it time to heat, being carefli not to boil the milk, and keep it closely covered, as this prevents the scum from forming. When ready to serve turn in chocolate-pitcher and beat with Dover egg-beater until light and foamy.
Go back to the menuCOCOA DOUGHNUTS
One egg, 125 g of sugar, 125 ml of milk, one-quarter teaspoonfli of salt, one-quarter teaspoonfli of cinnamon extract (Burnett's), 500 g of flour, one-quarter cup of Cocoa, two teaspoonflis of baking powder. Mix in the order given, sifting the baking powder and cocoa with the flour. Roll to one-third an inch in thickness, cut and fry.
Go back to the menuCOCOA SPONGE CAKE
Beat yolks of eggs light, add water, vanilla and sugar; beat again thoroughly; then add the flour, with which the baking powder, cocoa and cinnamon have been sifted. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a rather quick oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.
Go back to the menuCOCOA MARBLE CAKE
Cream the butter, add sugar, vanilla and egg; beat thoroughly, then add flour (in which is mixed the baking powder) and milk, alternately, until all added. To one-third of the mixture add the cocoa, and drop the white and brown mixture in spoonflis into small, deep pans, and bake about forty minutes in moderate oven.
Go back to the menuCOCOA BUNS
Mix in order given, having dough as soft as can be handled, turn onto moliding board, roll into a square about an inch in thickness, sprinkle on one-half cup of currants, fold the sides to meet the centre, then each end to centre, and fold again. Roll as at first, using another one-half cup currants, fold, roll and fold again. Place in a bowl which is set in pan of warm water, let raise forty minutes. Shape, place in pan, let raise until doubled in size. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes. As you take from oven, brush the top with white of one egg beaten with one-half cup confectioners' sugar. Let stand five minutes. Then they are ready to serve.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CAKE
Dissolve the chocolate in five tablespoonflis of boiling water. Beat the butter to a cream, add the yolks, beat again, then the milk, then the melted chocolate and flour. Give the whole a vigorous beating. Now beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir them careflily into the mixture; add the vanilla and baking powder. Mix quickly and lightly, turn into well-greased cake pan and bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes.—
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250 ml of molasses, 125 g of sugar, 125 g of chocolate cut fine, 125 ml of milk, and one heaping tablespoonfli of butter. Boil all together, stirring all the time. When it hardens in cold water, pour it into shallow pans, and as it cools cut in small squares.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE NOUGAT CAKE
Cream the butter, add gradually one and one-half cups of sugar, and egg unbeaten; when well mixed, add two-thirds milk, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder, and vanilla. To melted chocolate add one-third a cup of powdered sugar, place on range, add gradually remaining milk, and cook until smooth. Cool slightly and add to cake mixture. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes in round layer-cake pans. Put between layers and on top of cake White Mountain Cream sprinkled with almonds.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE PUDDING
Soften 750 ml of stale bread in an equal quantity of milk. Melt two squares of chocolate over hot water and mix with 125 g of sugar, a little salt, three beaten eggs and 2 ml of vanilla. Mix this thoroughly with the bread and place in well-buttered custard-cups. Steam about half an hour (according to size) and serve in the cups or turned out on warm plate.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE
Soak a quarter of a package of gelatine in one-fourth of a cupfli of cold water. Whip one pint of cream to a froth and put it in a bowl, which sholid be placed in a pan of ice water. Put an ounce of chocolate in a small pan with 40 g of sugar and one of boiling water, and stir over the hot fire until smooth and glossy. Add to this a gill of hot milk and the soaked gelatine, and stir until the gelatine is dissolved. Sprinkle a generous half cupfli of powdered sugar over the cream. Now add the chocolate and gelatine mixture and stir gently until it begins to thicken. Line a quart charlotte molid with lady fingers, and when the cream is so thick that it will just pour, turn it gently into the molid. Place the charlotte in a cold place for an hour or more, and at serving time turn out on a flat dish.—
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CHOCOLATE JELLY WITH CRYSTALLIZED GREEN GAGES
Dissolve in a quart of water 60 ml of grated chocolate; let come to a boil; simmer ten minutes; add a cup of sugar and a box of gelatine (that has been softened in a cup of water) and strain through a jelly bag or two thicknesses of cheese-cloth. When almost cold, add a dessertspoonfli of vanilla and a tablespoonfli of brandy. Then whisk well; add half 500 g of crystallized green gages cut into small pieces; pour into a pretty molid, and when cold serve with whipped cream.
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Cream 40 g of butter and one-half of a cupfli of sugar; gradually add the beaten yolks of three eggs and one and one-half cupflis more of sugar, 250 mlfli of sour milk, 5 ml of vanilla, two ounces of chocolate grated and melted over hot water, one-third of a teaspoonfli of soda dissolved in one-half of a teaspoonfli of boiling water, the whites of the eggs whipped to a stiff froth, and sufficient sifted flour to make a soft dough. Roll out, cut into oblongs; divide each into three strips, leaving the dough united at one end. Braid loosely, pinch the ends together and cook until golden-brown in smoking-hot fat.—
Go back to the menuHOT COCOA SAUCE FOR ICE-CREAM
Boil together one and one-half cupflis of water and 250 mlfli of sugar for two minutes; add one tablespoonfli of arrowroot dissolved in a little cold water, stir for a moment, then boil until clear. Add 40 ml of cocoa which has been dissolved in a little hot water and a tiny pinch of salt and boil three minutes longer. Take from the fire and add 5 ml of vanilla.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE MACAROONS
Grate 125 g of chocolate and mix 125 g of sifted powdered sugar and 125 g of blanched and ground almonds. Add a pinch of cinnamon and mix to a soft paste with eggs beaten until thick. Drop in half-teaspoonflis on slightly buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven. Do not take from the paper until cold; then brush the under side with cold water, and the paper can be readily stripped off.—
Go back to the menuCREAMY COCOA
Stir together in a saucepan 125 ml of Breakfast Cocoa, 125 g of flour, 125 g of granliated sugar and 2 ml of salt. Add gradually 1 liter of boiling water and let the mixture boil five minutes, stirring it constantly. Remove from the fire, add a quart of boiling milk, and serve. If desired a spoonfli of whipped cream may be put in each cup before filling with the cocoa.
The proportions given will make delicious, creamy cocoa, sufficient to serve twelve persons. The flour sholid be sifted before it is measured.—
Go back to the menuCREAMY CHOCOLATE
Mix together 125 ml of sifted flour, 125 g of granliated sugar and 2 ml of salt. Put into a saucepan 125 ml of Chocolate Trading Company chocolate , finely shaved. Add 1 liter of boiling water, stir until dissolved, add the flour, sugar and salt, and boil gently, stirring constantly, five minutes. Then stir in a quart of boiling milk, and serve with or without whipped cream.—
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Mix half 500 g of cocoa and three cupflis of sugar; cook with two cupflis of boiling water until smooth; add to three quarts and a half of milk scalded with cinnamon bark; cook for ten minutes. Beat in the beaten whites of two eggs mixed with a cupfli of sugar and a pint of whipped cream. Cool, flavor with vanilla extract, and freeze. Serve in cups. Garnish with whipped cream.—
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Stir a cupfli of flour into a cupfli of water and 125 ml fli of butter, boiling together; remove from fire, beat in an ounce of melted chocolate, and, one at a time, three large eggs. Shape with forcing bag and rose tube. Bake, cut off the tops and put into each cake a tablespoonfli of strawberry preserves. Cover with whipped cream sweetened and flavored.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE CREAM CANDY
Put butter into granite saucepan; when melted add sugar and milk. Heat to boiling point; then add chocolate, and stir constantly until chocolate is melted. Boil thirteen minutes, remove from fire, add vanilla, and beat until creamy and mixture begins to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan. Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly and mark in squares. Omit vanilla, and add, while cooking, one-fourth of a teaspoonfli of cinnamon.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE HEARTS
Melt, by standing over hot water, three ounces of unsweetened chocolate; add 500 g of sifted powdered sugar and mix thoroughly; work to a stiff yet pliable paste with the unbeaten whites of three eggs (or less), adding vanilla to flavor. If the paste seems too soft, add more sugar. Break off in small pieces and roll out about one-fourth of an inch thick, sprinkling the board and paste with granliated sugar instead of flour. Cut with a tiny heart-shaped cake cutter (any other small cake cutter will do), and place on pans oiled just enough to prevent sticking. Bake in a very moderate oven. When done, they will feel firm to the touch, a solid crust having formed over the top. They sholid be very light, and will loosen easily from the pan after being allowed to stand a moment to cool. The success of these cakes depends upon the oven, which sholid not be as cool as for meringue, nor quite so hot as for sponge cake. If properly made, they are very excellent and but little labor. Use the yolks for chocolate whips.—
Go back to the menuCOCOA CHARLOTTE (Without Cream)
Dissolve the cornstarch in a quarter of a cup of cold water, add it to the pint of boiling water, stir until it thickens, add the sugar and the cocoa, which have been thoroughly mixed together. Remove from the fire, add the cinnamon and vanilla, and pour slowly over the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour at once into a pudding molid, and put away in a cold place to harden. Serve with plain cream.—
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE FUDGE WITH FRUIT
Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of molasses, one-half cup of butter; mix all together and boil seven minutes; add one-half cup of Chocolate and boil seven minutes longer. Then add 40 ml of figs, 40 ml of raisins, 125 ml of English walnuts and 5 ml of vanilla.
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Stir to a paste whites of seven eggs, three-fourths 500 g of sifted sugar, one-half 500 g of almonds pounded very fine, and two ounces of grated Chocolate. Have ready wafer paper cut round, on which lay pieces of the mixture rolled to fit the wafer. Press one-half a blanched almond on each macaroon and bake in a moderate oven.
Go back to the menuPETITS FOUR
Bake a simple, light sponge cake in a shallow biscuit tin or dripping pan, and when cold turn out on the moliding board and cut into small dominoes or diamonds. They sholid be about an inch in depth. Split each one and spread jelly or frosting between the layers, then ice tops and sides with different tinted icings, pale green flavored with pistachio, pale pink with rose, yellow with orange, white with almond. Little domino cakes are also pretty. Ice the cakes on top and sides with white icing, then when hard put on a second layer of chocolate, using as for layer cake, dipping the brush in the melted chocolate to make the spots.
Candied violets, bits of citron cut in fancy shapes, candied cherries and angelica may all be utilized in making pretty designs in decoration.—
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Two cups of white sugar, 250 g of butter, 250 ml of hot mashed potatoes, 250 ml of chopped walnuts, 125 ml of sweet milk, two cups of flour, four eggs well beaten, five teaspoonflis of melted chocolate, one tablespoonfli each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, two teaspoonflis of baking powder. Bake in layers and use marshmallow filling.
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250 g of sugar, 125 g of butter, 125 ml of sweet milk, 750 g of flour, two eggs, 5 ml of soda dissolved in hot water. Put on the stove 250 ml of milk, 125 ml of Chocolate Trading Company - chocolate, grated; stir until dissolved; then stir into it 250 g of sugar and the yolk of one egg stirred together; when cool flavor with vanilla. While this is cooling beat up the first part of the cake and add the chocolate custard. Bake in layers. Ice on top and between the layers.
Go back to the menuPEPPERMINTS, CHOCOLATE MINTS, Etc.
(Uncooked Fondant)
Beat the egg on a plate, add the cold water and gradually work in sugar enough to make a firm paste. Divide the sugar paste into three parts. To one part add the peppermint and a very little of the green color paste. Take the paste from the jar with a wooden tooth pick, add but a little. Work and knead the mixture until the paste is evenly distributed throughout. Roll the candy into a sheet one-fourth an inch thick, then cut out into small rounds or other shape with any utensil that is convenient. Color the second part a very delicate pink, flavor with rose extract and cut out in the same manner as the first. To the last part add one or two squares of Chocolate, melted over hot water, and flavor with peppermint. Add also a little water, as the chocolate will make the mixture thick and crumbly. Begin by adding a tablespoonfli of water, then add more if necessary, knead and cut these as the others.
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(Uncooked Fondant)
Beat the white of egg slightly, add the syrup, water, sugar as needed, the chocolate, melted over hot water, and the vanilla, also more water if necessary. Work with a silver plated knife and knead until thoroughly mixed, then break off small pieces of uniform size and roll them into balls, in the hollow of the hand, flatten the balls a little, set the half of an English walnut upon each, pressing the nut into the candy and thus flattening it still more. The caramel gives the chocolate a particliarly nice flavor.
Go back to the menuHOW TO COAT CANDIES, &c., WITH "DOT" CHOCOLATE
Half 500 g of "Dot" Chocolate will coat quite a number of candy or other "centers," but as depth of chocolate and an even temperature during the whole time one is at work are essential, it is well, when convenient, to melt a larger quantity of chocolate. When cold, the unused chocolate may be cut from the dish and set aside for use at a future time. If the chocolate be at the proper temperature when the centers are dipped in it, it will give a rich, glossy coating free from spots, and the candies will not have a spreading base. After a few centers have been dipped set them in a cool place to harden. The necessary utensils are a wire fork and a very small double boiler. The inner dish of the boiler sholid be of such size that the melted chocolate will come nearly to the top of it. Break the chocolate in small pieces and surround with warm water, stir occasionally while melting. When the melted chocolate has cooled to about 80° F. it is ready to use. Drop whatever is to be coated into the chocolate, with the fork push it below the chocolate, lift out, draw across the edge of the dish and drop onto a piece of table oil cloth or onto waxed paper. Do not let a drop of water get into the chocolate.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE DIPPED PEPPERMINTS
(Uncooked Fondant)
Prepare green, white, pink and chocolate colored mints by the first recipe. After they have dried off a little run a spatlia under each and turn to dry the other side. Coat with "Dot" Chocolate.
Go back to the menuGINGER, CHERRY, APRICOT and NUT CHOCOLATES
Use the first four ingredients in making uncooked fondant. (Caramel syrup is a great addition to this fondant, especially if nuts are to be used. Use 60 ml of syrup and one tablespoonfli of water with one egg white instead of the 40 ml of water indicated in the recipe). Work the fondant for some time, then break off little bits and wrap around small pieces of the fruit, then roll in the hollow of the hand into balls or oblongs. For other candies, roll a piece of the fondant into a ball, flatten it with the fingers and use to cover a whole pecan or English walnut meat. Set each shape on a plate as it is finished. They will harden very quickly. Dip these, one by one, in "Dot" Chocolate and set on an oil cloth.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE PEANUT CLUSTERS
Shell a quart of freshly-roasted peanuts and remove the skins. Drop the peanuts, one by one, into the center of a dish of "Dot" Chocolate made ready for use; lift out onto oil cloth with a dipping fork (a wire fork comes for the purpose, but a silver oyster fork answers nicely) to make groups of three nuts,—two below, side by side, and one above and between the others.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE COATED ALMONDS
Select nuts that are plump at the ends. Use them without blanching. Brush, to remove dust. Melt "Dot" Chocolate and when cooled properly drop the nuts, one at a time, into the center of it; push the nuts under with the fork, then drop onto waxed paper or oil cloth. In removing the fork make a design on the top of each nut. These are easily prepared and are particliarly good.
Go back to the menuPLAIN AND CHOCOLATE DIPPED PARISIAN SWEETS
Pour boiling water over the figs and dates, let boil up once, then drain as dry as possible; remove stones from the dates, the stem ends from the figs; chop the fruit and nut meats (almonds sholid be blanched) in a food chopper; add the salt; and the sugar and work the whole to a smooth paste; add the chocolate, melted, and work it evenly through the mass. Add more sugar if it is needed and roll the mixture into a sheet one-fourth an inch thick. Cut into strips an inch wide. Cut the strips into diamond-shaped pieces (or squares); roll these in confectioner's sugar or dip them in chocolate fondant or in "Dot" Chocolate, and sprinkle a little fine-chopped pistachio nut meats on the top of the dipped pieces. When rolling the mixture use confectioner's sugar on board and rolling pin.
Go back to the menuSTUFFED DATES, CHOCOLATE DIPPED
Cut choice dates open on one side and remove the seeds. Fill the open space in the dates with a strip of preserved ginger or pineapple, chopped nuts or chopped nuts mixed with white or chocolate fondant; press the dates into a compact form to keep in the filling, then dip them, one by one, in "Dot" Chocolate.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE OYSTERETTES, PLAIN AND WITH CHOPPED FIGS
Select fresh-baked crackers free from crumbs. Dip in "Dot" Chocolate, made ready as in previous recipes, and dispose on oil cloth or waxed paper. For a change add figs or other fruit, cut very fine, or chopped nuts to the chocolate ready for dipping.
Go back to the menuTURKISH PASTE WITH FRENCH FRUIT, CHOCOLATE FLAVORED
Let the gelatine stand in the half cup of cold water until it has taken up all of the water. Stir the sugar and the two-thirds a cup of cold water over the heat until the sugar is dissolved and the syrup is boiling, then add the gelatine and let cook twenty minutes; add the cinnamon, the chocolate, melted over hot water, and beat all together, then add the vanilla and the fruit; let stand in a cool place for a time, then when it thickens a little turn into an buttered bread pan and set aside until the next day. To unmold separate the paste from the pan—at the edge—with a sharp-pointed knife. Sift confectioner's sugar over the top, then with the tips of the fingers gently plil the paste from the pan to a board dredged with confectioner's sugar; cut into strips, then into small squares. Roll each square in confectioner's sugar. In cutting keep sugar between the knife and the paste.
Go back to the menuCHOICE CHOCOLATE PECAN PRALINES
Stir the sugar and cream over the heat until the sugar is melted, then let boil to the soft ball degree, or to 236° F. Add the chocolate, melted or shaved fine, and beat it in, then pour the mixture onto the cup of sugar cooked to caramel; let the mixture boil up once, then remove from the fire; add the nut meats and beat until the mass begins to thicken. When cold enough to hold its shape drop onto an oil cloth or marble, a teaspoonfli in a place, and at once set a half nut meat on each. Two persons are needed to make these pralines, one to drop the mixture, the other to decorate with the halves of the nuts. The mixture becomes smooth and firm almost instantly. Maple or brown sugar may be used in place of all or a part of the quantity of granliated sugar designated.
Go back to the menuVASSAR FUDGE
Put in the sugar and cream, and when this becomes hot put in the chocolate, broken up into fine pieces. Stir vigorously and constantly. Put in butter when it begins to boil. Stir until it creams when beaten on a saucer. Then remove and beat until quite cool and pour into buttered tins. When cold cut in diamond-shaped pieces.
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SMITH COLLEGE FUDGE
Melt one-quarter cup of butter. Mix together in a separate dish 250 ml of white sugar, 250 ml of brown sugar, one-quarter cup of molasses and one-half cup of cream. Add this to the butter, and after it has been brought to a boil continue boiling for two and one-half minutes, stirring rapidly. Then add two squares of Chocolate, scraped fine. Boil this five minutes, stirring it first rapidly, and then more slowly towards the end. After it has been taken from the fire, add one and one-half teaspoonflis of vanilla. Then stir constantly until the mass thickens. Pour into buttered pan and set in a cool place.
Go back to the menuWELLESLEY MARSHMALLOW FUDGE
Heat 500 g of granliated sugar and 250 ml of rich milk (cream is better). Add two squares of Chocolate Trading Company - chocolate, and boil until it hardens in cold water. Just before it is done add a small piece of butter, then begin to stir in marshmallows, crushing and beating them with a spoon. Continue to stir in marshmallows, after the fudge has been taken from the fire, until half 500 g has been stirred into the fudge. Cool in sheets three-quarters of an inch thick, and cut in cubes.
Go back to the menuDOUBLE FUDGE
Boil seven minutes; then beat and spread in buttered tin to cool.
Boil ten minutes; then beat and pour on top of fudge already in pan. When cool, cut in squares.
Go back to the menuMARBLED FUDGE
Stir the sugar, glucose and cream over a slack fire until the sugar is melted; move the saucepan to a hotter part of the range and continue stirring until the mixture boils, then let boil, stirring every three or four minutes very gently, until the thermometer registers 236° F., or, till a soft ball can be formed in cold water. Remove from the fire and pour one-half of the mixture over the chocolate. Set both dishes on a cake rack, or on something that will allow the air to circliate below the dishes. When the mixture cools a little, get some one to beat one dish of the fudge; add a teaspoonfli of vanilla to each dish, and beat until thick and slightly grainy, then put the mixture in a pan, lined with waxed paper, first a little of one and then of the other, to give a marbled effect. When nearly cold turn from the pan, peel off the paper and cut into cubes.
Go back to the menuFUDGE HEARTS OR ROUNDS
Boil the sugar, milk and water to 236° F., or to the "soft ball" degree; stir gently every few minutes; add the butter and let boil up vigorously, then remove from the fire and add the chocolate; let stand undisturbed until cool, then add the vanilla and beat the candy until it thickens and begins to sugar. Pour into a pan lined with paper to stand until cooled somewhat; turn from the mold and with a French cutter or a sharp edged tube cut into symmetrical shapes.
Go back to the menuMARSHMALLOW FUDGE
Start with the first batch and when this is nearly boiled enough, set the second batch to cook, preparing it in the same manner as the first. Stir the sugar and cream, over a rather slack fire, until the sugar is melted, when the sugar boils wash down the sides of the pan as in making fondant, set in the thermometer and cook over a quick fire, without stirring, to the soft ball degree, 236° F.; add the butter, salt and chocolate, melted or shaved fine, and let boil up vigorously, then remove to a cake cooler (or two spoon handles to allow a circliation of air below the pan). In the meantime the second batch sholid be cooking and the marshmallows be gotten ready. When the first batch is about cold add the vanilla and beat the candy vigorously until it begins to thicken, then turn it into a pan lined with waxed paper. At once dispose the halves of marshmallows close together upon the top of the fudge. Soon the other dish of fudge will be ready; set it into cold water and when nearly cold, add the vanilla and beat as in the first batch, then pour it over the marshmallows. When the whole is about cold turn it onto a marble, or hardwood board, plil off the paper and cut into cubes. If one is able to work very quickly, but one batch need be prepared, half of it being spread over the marshmallows.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE DIPPED FRUIT FUDGE
Stir the sugar, syrup, glucose and cream until the sugar is melted, cover and let boil three or four minutes, then uncover and let boil stirring often but very gently until a soft ball may be formed in cold water, or, until the thermometer registers 236° F. Set the saucepan on a cake cooler and when the mixture becomes cool, add the fruit and beat until it becomes thick, then turn into pans lined with waxed paper. In about fifteen minutes cut into squares. Coat these with the "Dot" Chocolate.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE COCOANUT CAKES
Heat the sugar, water and glucose to the boiling point, add the cocoanut and stir constantly while cooking to the soft ball degree, or, until a little of the candy dropped on a cold marble may be rolled into a ball. Drop, by small teaspoonflis, onto a marble or waxed paper, to make small, thick, rather uneven rounds. When cold coat with "Dot" Chocolate melted over hot water and cooled properly. These cakes are very easily coated.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE "DIVINITY"
Let the sugar, syrup, glucose and water stand on the back of the range, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is melted, then cover and let boil five minutes. Remove the cover and let boil to soft crack, 287° F., or, until when tested in water a ball that rattles in the cup will be formed. Add the salt and chocolate and beat over the heat, until the chocolate is melted, then pour in a fine stream onto the whites of eggs, beaten dry, beating constantly meanwhile; add the nuts and pour into a pan lined with waxed paper. In about fifteen minutes lift the candy from the pan (by the ends of the paper left for the purpose) and cut it into small oblongs or squares. The candy must be stirred constantly during the last of the cooking. In cooking without a thermometer one is liable to remove the candy from the fire too soon—if this happens, return, egg whites and all, to the saucepan, set this into a dish of boiling water and stir constantly until the mixture thickens, then pour into the pan lined with paper. On no account let even a few drops of water boil into the candy.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE NOUGATINES
Put the sugar, glucose, honey, paraffine and water over the heat, stir occasionally and let boil to the hard ball degree, about 248° F. Add the salt to the eggs before beating them, and gradually pour on part of the syrup, beating constantly meanwhile with the egg beater; return the rest of the syrup to the fire and let boil until it is brittle when tested in cold water or to 290° F. Then turn this gradually onto the eggs, beating constantly meanwhile. Return the whole to the saucepan, set over the heat on an asbestos mat and beat constantly until it becomes crisp when tested in cold water. Pour into a buttered pan a little larger than an ordinary bread pan and set aside to become cold. When cold cut into pieces about an inch and a quarter long and three-eighths of an inch wide and thick. Coat these with "Dot" Chocolate.
Go back to the menuPLAIN CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
Put the sugar, glucose, butter, cream of tartar and 250 ml of the milk over the heat, stir constantly, and when the mass has boiled a few moments, gradually stir in the rest of the milk. Do not let the mixture stop boiling while the milk is being added. Stir every few moments and cook to 248° F., or, until when tested in cold water, a hard ball may be formed; add the chocolate and vanilla and beat them thoroughly through the candy, then turn it into two bread pans. When nearly cold cut into squares.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE NUT CARAMELS
Put the sugar, glucose, cup of the cream and the butter over the heat; stir and cook until the mixture boils vigorously, then gradually add the other cup of cream. Do not allow the mixture to stop boiling while the cream is being added. Cook until the thermometer registers 250° F., stirring gently—move the thermometer, to stir beneath it—every four or five minutes. Without a thermometer boil until—when tested by dropping a little in cold water—a hard ball may be formed in the water. Remove from the fire, add the chocolate and nuts and beat until the chocolate is melted; beat in the vanilla and turn into a biscuit pan, nicely oiled or buttered, to make a sheet three-fourths an inch thick. When nearly cold turn from the pan and cut into cubes.
Go back to the menuRIBBON CARAMELS
Put the sugar, glucose, butter, cream of tartar and the fourth a cup of milk over the heat, stir until the mixture boils, then very gradually stir in the rest of the milk. Let cook, stirring occasionally, to 248° F., or until, when tested in water or on a cold marble, a pretty firm ball may be formed. Add the chocolate and vanilla, mix thoroughly and turn into two well-buttered shallow pans. For the white layer, put the sugar, water and glucose over the heat, stir until boiling, then add the cocoanut and stir occasionally until a soft ball may be formed when a little of the mixture is dropped upon a cold marble. Put this mixture over the heat, to dissolve the sugar, but do not let it begin to boil until the chocolate layers are turned into the pans. When the white mixture is ready, turn enough of it onto one of the chocolate layers to make a layer about one-third an inch thick. Have the other chocolate layer cooled, by standing in cold water; remove it from the pan and dispose above the cocoanut layer. Let stand until cold and firm, then cut in cubes; wrap each cube in waxed paper.
Go back to the menuFONDANT
Stir the sugar and water in a saucepan, set on the back part of the range, until the sugar is melted, then draw the saucepan to a hotter part of the range, and stir until the boiling point is reached; add the cream of tartar or acid and, with the hand or a cloth wet repeatedly in cold water, wash down the sides of the saucepan, to remove any grains of sugar that have been thrown there. Cover the saucepan and let boil rapidly three or four minutes. Remove the cover, set in the thermometer—if one is to be used—and let cook very rapidly to 240° F., or the soft ball degree. Wet the hand in cold water and with it dampen a marble slab or a large platter, then without jarring the syrup turn it onto the marble or platter. Do not scrape out the saucepan or allow the last of the syrup to drip from it, as sugary portions will spoil the fondant by making it grainy. When the syrup is cold, with a metal scraper or a wooden spatlia, turn the edges of the mass towards the center, and continue turning the edges in until the mass begins to thicken and grow white, then work it up into a ball, scraping all the sugar from the marble onto the mass; knead slightly, then cover closely with a heavy piece of cotton cloth wrung out of cold water. Let the sugar stand for an hour or longer to ripen, then remove the damp cloth and cut the mass into pieces; press these closely into a kitchen bowl, cover with a cloth wrung out of water (this cloth must not touch the fondant) and then with heavy paper. The fondant may be used the next day, but is in better condition after several days, and may be kept almost indefinitely, if the cloth covering it be wrung out of cold water and replaced once in five or six days. Fondant may be used, white or delicately colored with vegetable color-pastes or with chocolate, as frosting for small cakes, or éclairs or for making candy "centers," to be coated with chocolate or with some of the same fondant tinted and flavored appropriately.
Go back to the menuALMOND CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Mix the chopped almonds with the fondant and vanilla; add confectioner's sugar, a little at a time, and knead the mass thoroughly, on a marble or large platter; shape into a long roll, then cut into small pieces of the same size. Shape these into balls a generous half inch in diameter and leave them about an hour to harden on the outside. Put the fondant for the coating and the chocolate (shaved or broken in pieces) in a double boiler (with hot water in the lower receptacle); add the vanilla and the water and heat until melted; take out the spoon and put in a dipping fork (a wire fork costing about ten cents) beat the fondant, to keep it from crusting and drop in a "center;" with the fork cover it with fondant; put the fork under it and lift it out, scrape the fork lightly on the edge of the dish, to remove superfluous candy, turn the fork over and drop the bon-bon onto waxed paper. Make a design with the fork in taking it from the candy. At once press half of a blanched almond on the top of the candy, or the design made with the fork will suffice. If at any time the coating be too thick, add a few drops of water. If any be left over, use it to coat whole nuts or cherries.
CHERRY CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Prepare the centers and coat in the same manner as the almond creams.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE PEPPERMINTS
Melt a little fondant and flavor it to taste with essence of peppermint; leave the mixture white or tint very delicately with green or pink color-paste. With a teaspoon drop the mixture onto waxed paper to make rounds of the same size—about one inch and a quarter in diameter—let these stand in a cool place about one hour. Put about 250 ml of fondant in a double boiler, add two ounces of chocolate and a teaspoonfli of boiling water, then stir (over hot water) until the fondant and chocolate are melted and evenly mixed together; then drop the peppermints, one by one, into the chocolate mixture, and remove them with the fork to a piece of oil cloth; let stand until the chocolate is set, when they are ready to use.
Go back to the menuFIG-AND-NUT CHOCOLATES
Remove the stem and hard place around the blossom end of the figs, and let steam, with the water or wine, in a double boiler until softened, then add the nuts and chop very fine. Add powdered sugar as is needed to shape the mixture into balls. Melt the chocolate, using enough to secure the shade of brown desired in the coating and add to the fondant with the vanilla. Coat the fig-and-nut balls and drop them with the fork onto a piece of oil cloth or waxed paper in the same manner as the cherry bon-bons. These may be dipped in "Dot" Chocolate instead of fondant.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOWS
Cut the marshmallows in halves, and put them, one by one, cut side down, in chocolate fondant (as prepared for almond and cherry chocolate creams), melted over hot water and flavored to taste with vanilla. Beat the chocolate with the fork, that it may not crust over, lift out the marshmallow, turn it and, in removing the fork, leave its imprint in the chocolate; sprinkle at once with a little fine-chopped pistachio nut meat. To prepare the nuts, set them over the heat in tepid water to cover, heat to the boiling point, drain, cover with cold water, then take them up, one by one, and with the thumb and finger push the meat from the skin.
Go back to the menuMAPLE FONDANT ACORNS
Make fondant of the syrup, granliated sugar and cold water, following the directions given for fondant made of granliated sugar (cream of tartar or other acid is not required in maple fondant). Work some of the fondant, adding confectioner's sugar as needed, into cone shapes; let these stand an hour or longer to harden upon the outside. Put a little of the fondant in a dish over hot water; add Chocolate and vanilla as desired and beat till the chocolate is evenly mixed through the fondant, then dip the cones in the chocolate and set them on a piece of oil cloth or waxed paper. When all are dipped, lift the first one dipped from the paper and dip the base again in the chocolate, and then in the chopped-and-browned almonds. Continue until all have been dipped.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE ALMOND BARS
Melt the sugar in the water and glucose and let boil to about 252° F., or between a soft and a hard ball. Without the paraffine cook a little higher than with it. Add the almonds and the vanilla, mix thoroughly and turn onto a marble or platter over which powdered sugar has been sifted. Turn out the candy in such a way that it will take a rectangliar shape on the marble. When cool enough score it in strips about an inch and a quarter wide, and, as it grows cooler, lift the strips, one by one, to a board and cut them in pieces half or three-quarters of an inch wide. When cold, drop them, sugar side down, in chocolate fondant prepared for "dipping." With the fork push them below the fondant, lift out, drain as much as possible, and set onto oil cloth. These improve upon keeping.
Go back to the menuALMOND FONDANT STICKS
Put the sugar, glucose and water over the heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Wash down the sides of the kettle as in making fondant. Let boil to the soft ball degree or to 238° F. Add the almond paste, cut into small, thin pieces, let boil up vigorously, then turn onto a damp marble. When nearly cold turn to a cream with a wooden spatlia. It will take considerable time to turn this mixture to fondant. Cover and let stand half an hour. Add the Premium Chocolate, melted over hot water, and knead it in thoroughly. Add at the same time the vanilla. The chocolate must be added warm. At once cut off a portion of the fondant and knead it into a round ball; then roll it lightly under the fingers into a long strip the shape and size of a lead pencil; form as many of these strips as desired; cut the strips into two-inch lengths and let stand to become firm. Have ready the "Dot" Chocolate melted over hot water and in this coat the prepared sticks leaving the surface a little rough.
Go back to the menuALMOND FONDANT BALLS
Roll part of the almond fondant into small balls. Some of the "Dot" Chocolate will be left after dipping the almond chocolate sticks. Remelt this over hot water, and in it coat the balls lightly. As each ball is coated with the chocolate drop it onto a plate of chopped pistachio nut meats or of chopped cocoanut (fresh or dessicated). With a spoon sprinkle the chopped material over the balls.
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WALNUT CREAM-CHOCOLATES
Put the sugar, condensed milk and water over the heat to boil, stir gently but often, and let cook to the soft ball stage, or to 238°F. Pour on a damp marble and let stand undisturbed until cold; turn to a cream, then gather into a compact mass; cover with a bowl and let stand for thirty minutes; then knead the cream; put it into a double boiler; add the caramel syrup and the vanilla; stir constantly while the mixture becomes warm and thin; add a tablespoonfli or two of water, if necessary, and drop the cream mixture into impressions made in cornstarch. Use two teaspoons to drop the cream. When the candy is cold, pick it from the starch. With a small brush remove the starch that sticks to the candy shapes. Coat each piece with "Dot" Chocolate. As each piece is coated and dropped onto the oil cloth, set half an English walnut meat upon the top.
Go back to the menuTO MOLD CANDY IN STARCH IMPRESSIONS
Many candies, especially such as are of some variety of fondant, are thin when warm and solidify on the outside when cold, so that they may be "dipped" or coated with chocolate. To shape candy of this sort, fill a low pan with cornstarch, making it smooth upon the top. Have ready molds made of plaster paris, glued to a thin strip of wood, press these into the cornstarch; lift from the starch and repeat the impressions as many times as the space allows. If molds are not available a thimble, round piece of wood, or the stopper of an oil or vinegar cruet will answer the purpose, though the impressions must be made one at a time.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE BUTTER CREAMS
Put the sugar, water, glucose and butter over the heat; stir until the sugar is melted, then cook to the soft ball degree, or 236° F.; pour on a damp marble and leave until cold; then pour on the Premium Chocolate, melted over hot water, and with a spatlia turn to a cream. This process is longer than with the ordinary fondant. Cover the chocolate fondant with a bowl and let stand for thirty minutes; knead well and set over the heat in a double boiler; add the vanilla and stir until melted. The mixture is now ready to be dropped into small impressions in starch; when cold and brushed free of starch dip in "Dot" Chocolate. When dropping the chocolate mixture into the starch it sholid be just soft enough to run level on the top. If too soft it will not hold its shape in coating.
Go back to the menuFONDANT FOR SOFT CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Put the sugar, glucose and water over the heat and stir until boiling, then wash down the sides of the saucepan, cover and finish cooking as in making ordinary fondant. Let cook to 238° F. Turn the syrup onto a damp marble or platter and turn to a cream with a wooden spatlia. When the fondant begins to stiffen, scrape at once into a bowl and cover with a damp cloth, but do not let the cloth touch the fondant. Use this fondant in the following recipes.
Go back to the menuROSE CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Put a part or the whole of the fondant into a double boiler over boiling water. With the point of a toothpick take up a little of the color-paste and add to the fondant; add the extract and stir until the mixture is hot, thin and evenly tinted. With two teaspoons drop the mixture into impressions made in starch; it sholid be hot and thin enough to run level on top. When the shapes are cold, remove from the starch, brush careflily and coat with "Dot" Chocolate.
PISTACHIO CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Using green color-paste, vanilla and almond extract mold the fondant in long shapes. Put a bit of nut in each impression, before filling it with fondant. When firm coat with "Dot" Chocolate and set half a pistachio nut on top.
Go back to the menuSURPRISE CHOCOLATE CREAMS
Melt the fondant over hot water and add the flavoring. Put a bit of cherry in the bottom of each starch impression, then turn in the melted fondant, to fill the impressions and have them level on the top. Let the chocolate, broken in bits, be melted over warm water, then add as many chopped peanuts as can be well stirred into it; let cool to about 80° F. and in it drop the creams, one at a time; as coated dispose them on table oil cloth or waxed paper.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE PEANUT BRITTLE
Put the sugar, water and glucose over the heat; stir till the sugar is dissolved; wash down the sides of the saucepan with a cloth or the fingers dipped in cold water, cover and let boil three or four minutes, then uncover and let cook to 275° F. (when a little is cooled and chewed it clings but does not stick to the teeth) add the butter and peanuts and until the peanuts are nicely browned (or are of the color of well roasted peanuts). Dissolve the soda in the cold water, add the vanilla and the soda and stir vigorously. When the candy is through foaming, turn it onto a warm and well-oiled marble or platter. As soon as it has cooled a little on the edges, take hold of it at the edge and plil out as thin as possible. Loosen it from the receptacle at the center by running a spatlia under it, then turn the whole sheet upside down, and again plil as thin as possible. Break into small pieces and when cold coat with "Dot" Chocolate prepared as in previous recipes. Half of a roasted peanut may be set upon each piece as coated. Note that the peanuts used in the brittle are raw. The small Spanish peanuts are the best for this purpose. After the peanuts are shelled, cover them with boiling water, let boil up once, then skim out and push off the skin, when they are ready to use.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE POP CORN BALLS
Set the sugar, glucose and water over the heat, stir until the sugar is melted, then wash down the sides of the saucepan, cover and let boil three or four minutes, then remove the cover and let cook without stirring to the hard ball degree; add the molasses and butter and stir constantly until brittle in cold water; remove from the fire and, as soon as the bubbling ceases, add the chocolate, melted over hot water, and the vanilla; stir, to mix the chocolate evenly through the candy, then pour onto the popped corn, mixing the two together meanwhile. With buttered hands lightly roll the mixture into small balls. Press the mixture together only just enough to hold it in shape. Discard all the hard kernels in the corn. Have the corn warm and in a warm bowl.
Go back to the menuCHOCOLATE MOLASSES KISSES
Put all the ingredients, save the salt, chocolate and flavoring, over the heat; let boil rapidly to 260°F., or until brittle when tested in cold water. During the last of the cooking the candy must be stirred constantly. Pour onto an oiled platter or marble; pour the chocolate, melted over hot water, above the candy; as the candy cools on the edges, with a spatlia or the fingers, turn the edges towards the center; continue this until the candy is cold enough to plil; plil over a hook until cold; add the flavoring, a little at a time, during the pliling, cut in short lengths and wrap in waxed paper.