Nègre en Chemise

• 6 ounces butter
• 8 slices white bread
• 1¼ pints

Cream butter. Soak bread, trimmed of crusts, in ½ pint double cream. Add to butter with ground blanched almonds, sugar, and chocolate which you have melted over hot water and cooled. Beat the mixture with electric mixer until smooth; then beat in eggs one by one.

Pour the mixture into a tall mo