Chocolate pot recipe
Tuesday 31st January 2012
This recipe is from my favourite recipe book, 1981 Good Housekeeping’s French Cookery by Helge Rubinstein:
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Petits pots au chocolat:
- 200g bitter high cocoa content chocolate, broken into pieces
- 300ml single cream
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- pinch of salt
Heat the cream in a pan slowly and until it is just short of the boil. Remove from heat. Add the bits of chocolate and stir until melted and nice and smooth. Stir in the egg, vanilla and salt. Stir for a minute or two until quite amalgamated and silky but make sure you don’t hang about as it needs to be warm to go into the pots.
Spoon into your pots (I use very small coffee cups, shot or cocktail glasses would also do, or small earthen-ware pots with glazed insides). Cover with cling film and chill in the ‘fridge for at least 4 hours, but you can make 24 hours ahead of time, at least. When you serve, add a dribble of single cream or sour cream to emulate cream on coffee.
Variations: for evening or Christmas servings, add brandy or booze of choice to the egg mix; for Millington, add chili powder to the choc.
Serves 4 (really, this is so rich, I think it serves 5 or 6, you only need/want a few luxurious tea-spoons…also note that the egg is barely cooked really so not suitable for everyone.
I haven’t cooked many of the cakes and pudding recipes because I am, contrary to evidence you may have gathered from my blog and workshops, more of a savoury food fan. The vegetable dishes in this book are also lovely but my absolute favourite is the
carbonnade nimoise – lamb baked with potatoes and aubergines. It is so easy and delicious, the book opens naturally at that page. I like this book better than my Julia Child because the recipes are much simpler. It looks so dated now and by no means is it ‘slimming’ food, but I love it. I think my dad gave it to me, certainly it would have been his dream cook book, bless his greedy little heart. I would give anything in my power to cook and eat the
tournedos Rossini with him again.
Squeeeeeee! Fabulous – thank you so much for sharing. I expect to be found with my face in one (or more) of these as soon as possible xxxxx
Thankyou! 🙂