On 1 Mar 2006 08:51:59 -0800, in rec.food.cooking, Jude wrote:

Doug Weller wrote:
Hunt Ball Chocolate Pudding

1/2 lb plain (dark) chocolate
3 tbs sugar
3 eggs
8 trifle sponges or maybe 16 ladyfingers

Separate eggs.
Melt chocolate with 3 tbs water and cool.
Beat sugar and yolks in double saucepan, add chocolate, fold in beaten
whites. Lay sponges in a glass dish, cover with the mixture and chill.

OK, you lost me.

Question 1: how do you melt chocolate with water? Won't it seize?

Try it out, it works for me.

Q 2: The 'double saucepan"...is that a double boiler? Is the mixture
being heated? For how long?

Yes, this is an English recipe after all. How long is up to you. This is
an old recipe.


Q3: The beaten egg whites get folded in and then remain raw?

Yep.

Weird recipe. Explain,. please!!
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