No. 8. Chocolate Cream for Filling

Original Recipe

Five tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, enough cream or milk to wet it, one cupful of sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful vanilla flavoring. Stir the ingredients over the fire until thoroughly mixed, having beaten the egg well before adding it; then add the vanilla flavoring after it is removed from the fire.

Ingredients

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  • 5 tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate
  • 1 cupful of sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoonful vanilla flavoring
  • 10 the egg well before adding it
  • 1 flavoring after it is removed from the fire

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Five tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, enough cream or milk to wet it, one cupful of sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful vanilla flavoring.

  2. 2

    Stir the ingredients over the fire until thoroughly mixed, having beaten the egg well before adding it; then add the vanilla flavoring after it is removed from the fire.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)