Chocolate Cream

Origin: London, England

Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Beat the yolks of the eggs well;
  2. put them into a basin with the grated chocolate, the sugar, and 1 pint of the cream;
  3. stir these ingredients well together, pour them into a jug, and set this jug in a saucepan of boiling water;
  4. stir it one way until the mixture thickens, but _do not allow it to boil_, or it will curdle.
  5. Strain the cream through a sieve into a basin;
  6. stir in the isinglass and the other 1/2 pint of cream, which should be well whipped;
  7. mix all well together, and pour it into a mould which has been previously oiled with the purest salad-oil, and, if at hand, set it in ice until wanted for table.

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