Chocolate Custards

Name: Chocolate Custards
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: water, ¼ pint; new milk, 1 pint:; sugar, 2½ to 3 oz.; cream, ½ pint; Yolks of eggs, 8.; water, 1 large wineglassful: 5 to 8 minutes.; Rasped chocolate, 1½ oz.; eggs, 5; New milk, 1 pint; chocolate, 2 oz.; sugar, 2 oz.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

About

Ingredients

Rasped chocolate, 1½ oz.
water, 1 large wineglassful: 5 to 8 minutes.
New

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Dissolve gently by the side of the fire an ounce and a half of the best chocolate in rather more than a wineglassful of water, and then boil it until it is perfectly smooth; mix with it a pint of m