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Chocolate Glace

A chocolate glaze made by dissolving chocolate, mixing with frosting, and adding boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Chocolate Glace

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the chocolate in a cup.

  2. Combine the melted chocolate with the glace frosting.

  3. Add the boiling water and mix well.

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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What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides chocolate flavor and the color of the glaze.
Glace frosting
Supplies sugar and body, giving the glaze its sweetness and thickness.
Boiling water
Thins the mixture so it spreads smoothly into a glaze.

“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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