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Iced Chocolate

A chilled chocolate beverage made with grated chocolate, boiling water, rich milk, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Iced Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate base

  1. Boil 1 cup of water.

  2. Add the boiling water to 6 tablespoons of grated chocolate and boil for 2 minutes, skimming off any oil that rises.

  3. Heat 6 cups of rich milk to boiling.

  4. Add the chocolate mixture and let it boil briefly.

  5. Cool the mixture until nearly cold.

Freeze and serve

  1. Stir in 1 cup of whipped cream.

  2. Pour the mixture into a freezer and partially freeze.

  3. Serve in tall glasses topped with a spoonful of whipped cream.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated chocolate
Provides the chocolate flavour and body of the drink.
Rich milk
Forms the liquid base and adds creaminess and richness.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and a light, smooth texture to the chilled mixture.

The step that matters

Skimming the chocolate mixture. Oil that rises while the chocolate boils can leave a greasy film on the drink, so skimming it off keeps the texture smooth.

“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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