Soup/Stew/Chowder Chocolate-soup with Wine

53. chocolate soup with wine
(from The United States Cook Book: A Complete Manual for Ladies, Housekeepers and Cooks, by William Vollmer, 1856)

Ingredients:

1-1/2 lbs. chocolate​

1 pint of water​

a bottle of wine (red wine is best)​

juice of half a lemon​

some slices of lemons​

some of lemon peel - optional​

sugar as desired​

4 egg yolks​

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top with 1 egg white & pulverized loaf sugar - optional​

Instructions:

For a tureen of soup for six persons, take a pound and a half of chocolate, grate and sift it, pour gradually over it a pint of water, and put it on the fire. When it boils up add a bottle of wine (red wine is the best) the juice of half a lemon, some slices of lemons, also if you like, some of the peel, and as much sugar as you think proper. After the soup has boiled up again, stir in the yelks of four eggs, and dish it. You may put on the top, the white of egg beaten to a froth and mixed with pulverized loaf sugar.​

 

[donna]

Sounds good, more like a dessert soup.