Chocolate Cream Recipe

Chocolate cream pie recipe.

• Soak a box of gelatine in ½ a pint of cold water for two hours.
• Put one quart of milk in the double-boiler, and place on the fire.
• Shave two ounces of chocolate, and put it in a small pan with four tablespoonfuls of sugar and two of boiling water.
• Stir over a hot fire until smooth and glossy, and then stir into the hot milk.
• Beat the yolks of five eggs with ½ a cupful of sugar.
• Add to the gelatine, and stir the mixture into the hot milk.
• Cook three minutes longer, stirring all the while.
• On taking from the fire, add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and ½ a saltspoonful of salt.
• Strain, and pour into moulds that have been rinsed in cold water.
• Set away to harden, and serve with sugar and cream.