Chocolate Jelly
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Break chocolate into small pieces and dissolve in boiling water.
Add Crisco, salt, and cornstarch mixed with sugar.
Stir and boil for 8 minutes.
Remove from fire, add vanilla and nuts, and pour at once into a wet mold.
Cool, turn out, and serve with whipped cream.
Original recipe, verbatim
Chocolate Jelly
2 squares chocolate 4 tablespoonfuls cornstarch
1 tablespoonful Crisco % teaspoonful salt
2 cupfuls boiling water 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
^ cupful sugar J^ cupful chopped walnut meats
Whipped cream
Break chocolate into small pieces, dissolve in boiling water, add Crisco, salt, cornstarch mixed with sugar, stir and boil for eight minutes. Remove from fire add vanilla and nuts and pour at once into wet mold. Cool, turn out and serve with whipped cream.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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