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An appeal to Clair!


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Clair, please, please, please, can you give me the link to your pot au chocolat  recipe that you posted about recently and that only takes 5 minutes to make?

I took down all the details and now can't find my bit of paper!

I promise that if you post the details again, I will have the bit of paper laminated and fixed to my fridge by magnet!

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Easy peasy:

  • 800 ml milk
  • 200 ml liquid cream
  • 200 g bar of dark chocolate @ 70%
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 50 g granulated sugar
  • 4 level tbsp cornflour (Maïzena)
  1. Heat the cream and milk in a large pan until they start bubbling gently.
  2. In the meantime, break the bar of chocolate in smallish pieces in a heat-proof jug or bowl.
  3. Mix the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour in another heat-proof jug or bowl and whisk until the mix becomes pale.
  4. As

    soon as the milk and cream start bubbling, remove from the heat and

    pour half over the chocolate. Mix until melted and smooth.
  5. Pour

    the chocolate mix over the left-over creamy milk, stir and pour gently

    over the egg, a little at a time, stirring all the time, until all is

    mixed.
  6. Pour back into the pan and reheat over a gentle flame, stirring all the time until it starts bubbling.
  7. Carry

    one stirring for another couple of minutes, then pour into small

    ramekins / cups and cool before putting in the fridge for a couple of

    hours minimum.
Edit: if you do not have 70% chocolate, add 1

or 2 tbsp of cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate powder!) to the egg

& sugar mix.

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Clair, just so's you know your instructions to me have not been in vain............

Made the pots today.  Put them in coffee cups, piped a dollop of cream on top (to hide the "skin") and put a glacé cherry on some and a walnut half (from last year's crop) on others.

Put the cups on matching saucers and served with 2 dainty almond biscuits on the side.

Tasted divine!  Thanks again.........

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