Chocolate Pudding

One of the later recipes in the manuscript book, this is not in Avis’ handwriting. It is possibly Edwardian, but is more likely to be a 1920s recipe, added when Avis was elderly or had handed her book down to the next generation. Similar recipes can be found in books of about this time, when eating chocolate was established enough to have crept into the culinary repertoire, and cheap enough to form the basis of mid-range puddings of this type. It is