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Hot Chocolate Shake

A warm chocolate drink made with melted chocolate, sugar, milk, and topped with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Hot Chocolate Shake

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate

  1. Melt the chocolate in a small kettle.

  2. Add the sugar and mix well.

  3. Heat the milk and add it to the chocolate mixture.

  4. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring continuously with an egg beater.

  5. If the mixture cools, reheat and stir with the beater.

Serve

  1. Place 1 teaspoon of whipped cream in a cup.

  2. Pour the hot chocolate over the whipped cream and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the main flavor and body of the drink as it melts into the milk.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the bitterness of the chocolate.
Milk
Forms the liquid base and gives the drink its creamy richness.
Whipped cream
Adds a cool, rich topping that softens as it meets the hot chocolate.

The step that matters

Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring continuously. Milk can scorch or form a skin on the bottom of the pot if left still while heating. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly and keeps the chocolate smooth and blended into the milk.

“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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