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Chocolate Squares

Chocolate squares made with grated chocolate, sugar, water, and coconut ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Squares

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a layer of coconut ice as usual.

  2. In a saucepan, combine ½ lb of grated chocolate with water and sugar to taste.

  3. Boil the mixture, stirring until the chocolate is fully dissolved.

  4. Pour the chocolate mixture over the coconut layer.

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated chocolate
Forms the rich body of the layer and sets firm as it cools.
Sugar
Sweetens the chocolate, adjusted to taste.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture, stirring until the chocolate is fully dissolved. Chocolate can scorch or seize when overheated or when it meets water too quickly. Keeping the heat moderate and stirring constantly helps the chocolate melt into a smooth, glossy mixture.

“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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