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A hot chocolate beverage made with chocolate, water, milk, cream, and egg white, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate

  1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.

  2. Slowly add the water and boil for 15 minutes, stirring continually.

Finish the drink

  1. Add the milk and heat until hot.

  2. Stir in the foamed egg white and serve.

French method

  1. For the French method, boil 1 pint of water, add 1 cup of grated chocolate, and then add 1 pint of milk and boil.

Serve

  1. Serve with a spoonful of whipped cream on 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
Provides the main chocolate flavour and body to the drink.
Milk
Adds creaminess and softens the chocolate's bitterness.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, full mouthfeel.
Egg white
Whipped to foam, it adds lightness to the hot drink.

The step that matters

Boil slowly while stirring continually. Chocolate can scorch or settle on the bottom of the pan when heated for a long time, so steady stirring keeps it smooth and evenly mixed during the 15-minute boil.

“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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