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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