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Hot Chocolate Shake

A hot chocolate drink made by melting chocolate, adding sugar and milk, boiling, and serving with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Hot Chocolate Shake

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate

  1. Put the chocolate in a small kettle and melt.

  2. Add the sugar and mix well.

  3. Then put in the heated milk.

  4. Let the mixture come to a boil, stirring all the time with an egg beater.

  5. If it becomes cold, reheat and stir with the beater.

Serve

  1. Put 1 tsp whipped cream in a cup.

  2. Pour over the hot chocolate and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

163Calories
8 gProtein
8 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Milk + gingertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,519 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Milk
Provides the liquid base and creamy body for the drink.

The step that matters

Stirring while the mixture comes to a boil. Milk can scorch and form a skin on the bottom of the pan when heated. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly and keeps the chocolate and milk smooth and blended.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, lemon):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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