Spanish Chocolate
Ingredients
Directions
Scrape a portion of the chocolate cake finely.
Add the scraped chocolate to a pot with enough 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
- Spanish chocolate cake
- Supplies the chocolate flavour and sweetness that the drink is built on.
The step that matters
Milling to make it completely smooth. Pieces of cake that are not broken down fully stay suspended as grit in the liquid. Milling breaks these particles down so the drink feels smooth in the mouth.
“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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