Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Chocolate Tarts. ✠

• 4 eggs, whites and yolks.
• ½ cake of Baker’s chocolate, grated.
• 1 tablespoonful corn-starch dissolved in water.
• 3 tablespoonfuls milk.
• 4 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
• 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla.
• 1 saltspoonful salt.
• ½ teaspoonful cinnamon.
• 1 teaspoonful butter, melted.

Rub the chocolate smooth in the milk and heat to boiling over the fire, then stir in the corn-starch. Stir five minutes until well thickened, remove from the fire, and pour into a bowl. Beat all the yolks and the whites of two eggs well with the sugar, and when the chocolate mixture is almost cold, put all together with the flavoring, and stir until light. Bake in open shells of pastry. When done, cover with a méringue made of the whites of two eggs and two tablespoonfuls of sugar flavored with a teaspoonful of lemon-juice. Eat cold.

These are nice for tea, baked in pattypans.