{"id":1755,"date":"2009-11-20T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2009-11-20T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:30:11","slug":"french-hot-chocolate-a-lamericaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/french-hot-chocolate-a-lamericaine\/","title":{"rendered":"French hot chocolate \u00e0 l&#8217;am\u00e9ricaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carolee\/351305234\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/351305234_bd774b0c14_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carolee\/351305234\/\">hot chocolate re-creation<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/carolee\/\">leiabox<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The kids wanted a cup of hot chocolate yesterday, and wanting to try out a new recipe, I opened my well-used copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0684818701?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=0684818701\">The New Joy of Cooking<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=0684818701\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (which I normally rely on for American pancakes and that sort of things).<\/p>\n<p>It had three recipes to choose from: American, French and Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte opted for the French one, and that turned out to be a good choice, it was lovely, thick and creamy.<\/p>\n<p>I modified the amounts a bit and made some optional choices, so here is what I did, not a verbatim copy of the recipe:<\/p>\n<p>Bring 165ml of whipping cream to a boil, remove from the heat and whisk in one plate (150g) of plain chocolate, broken into pieces.  Whisk it well.  (The recipe states you should strain it through a sieve at this stage, but there was no need.)<\/p>\n<p>Now add equal amounts (about 250ml) of milk, and return to the heat until warm but not boiling.<\/p>\n<p>Add 2tsp Kahl\u00faa, pour into cups and top with marshmallows.<\/p>\n<p>Especially the marshmallow bit doesn&#8217;t strike me as being particularly French, but it was lovely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hot chocolate re-creation Originally uploaded by leiabox The kids wanted a cup of hot chocolate yesterday, and wanting to try out a new recipe, I opened my well-used copy of The New Joy of Cooking (which I normally rely on for American pancakes and that sort of things). It had three recipes to choose from: American, French and Italian. Charlotte opted for the French one, and that turned out to be a good choice, it was lovely, thick and creamy. I modified the amounts a bit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}