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French Chocolate

A chocolate beverage made by melting chocolate in boiling water, thickening with cornstarch and cold milk, then adding to hot milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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French Chocolate

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat the hot milk in a saucepan.

  2. Melt the chocolate in the boiling water.

  3. Blend the cornstarch with the cold milk.

Make the drink

  1. Pour the cornstarch mixture into the hot milk and cook for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the melted chocolate 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

What each ingredient does

Cornstarch
Thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the drink a smoother, heavier body.
Chocolate (in the method)
Provides the main flavor and richness of the drink.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the drink and adds creaminess.

The step that matters

Pour the cornstarch mixture into the hot milk and cook. Cornstarch must be fully dispersed in cold milk before it meets the hot milk, otherwise it clumps. Cooking the mixture lets the starch granules swell and thicken the drink.

“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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