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"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?

Nope. It's a mystical thing, melting chocolate is. It will seize if
you get a drop in it, but not if you melt it with quantity. (I don't
know what the magic quantity is, though.) Weird, huh?

>
> Q 2: The 'double saucepan"...is that a double boiler? Is the mixture
> being heated? For how long?
>
> Q3: The beaten egg whites get folded in and then remain raw?

Sure.
But it's not the best-written recipe. :-/
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-Barb
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