Name: Chocolate Dipping
Ingredients: dipping chocolate; oiled paper

Chocolate Dipping

Ingredients

dipping chocolate
oiled paper

Directions

Grate the dipping chocolate or cut it into small pieces.
Melt the chocolate over warm (not boiling) water, stirring frequently.
Remove from heat and let it cool to 90°F.
Prepare your centers (nuts, fruits, marshmallows, or fondant).
Dip each center into the chocolate one at a time, lift out, and dry on oiled paper.

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.