"Jude" > wrote in
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> 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.

>
> Q3: The beaten egg whites get folded in and then remain raw?
>
> Weird recipe. Explain,. please!!
>

It's not that weird, really. It could use a little more detail, perhaps,
but it looks to me like a typical chocolate mousse recipe, with the
mousse mixture being placed over the sponges before chilling.

Most classic mousse recipes have raw eggs, AFAIK.

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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia