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Chocolate Cream Candy

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Sugar
  • ⅔ cup Milk
  • 1 tablespoon Butter
  • 2 squares Chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    Omit vanilla, if desired, and add, while cooking, one-fourth teaspoon cinnamon.

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Where this recipe comes from

Chocolate Cream Candy, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.