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Frexch Chocolate

A hot chocolate drink made with milk, chocolate, whipped egg whites and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Frexch Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate

  1. Scrape the chocolate and boil it in 3 tablespoons of milk.

  2. When the milk is boiling, stir in the chocolate and the whipped egg whites.

  3. Let it boil for 5 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately with a tablespoon of whipped cream in each cup.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Melts into the hot liquid to give the drink its body and rich chocolate flavour.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the chocolate melts into, adding creaminess.
Egg whites
Whipped, they trap air for a lighter, frothier texture in the finished drink.

The step that matters

Stirring in the whipped egg whites. Whipped egg whites are a foam held together by air bubbles. Stirring them in gently keeps the air trapped, so the drink stays light and frothy. Heat then sets the egg proteins as the mixture boils.

“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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