American

Chocolate Sauce

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

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Milk
  • 1½ tablespoons Corn-Starch
  • 2 squares Chocolate
  • 4 tablespoons Powdered Sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Hot Water
  • 2 Eggs
  • ⅔ cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Make it

Method

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    Scald one and three-fourths cups milk, add corn-starch diluted with remaining milk, and cook eight minutes in double boiler; melt chocolate over hot water, add four tablespoons sugar and hot water, stir until smooth, then add to cooked mixture; beat whites of eggs until stiff, add gradually powdered sugar and continue beating, then add unbeaten yolks, and stir into cooked mixture; cook one minute, add vanilla, and cool before serving.

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Where this recipe comes from

Chocolate Sauce, 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.