Spanish Chocolate
Ingredients
Directions
Scrape a portion of the chocolate cake finely.
Add the scraped chocolate to a sufficient quantity of water.
Simmer the mixture for 15 minutes.
Milling is necessary to make it completely smooth.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Chocolate cake
- Supplies cocoa flavour, sweetness and body that thickens the drink as it dissolves.
The step that matters
Simmer the mixture for 15 minutes. Gentle simmering lets the cake's starch and sugars dissolve and thicken the liquid evenly. Heat that is too high can scorch the sugars and stick to the base of the pan.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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