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Chocolate Cream

4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g Chocolate
• 0.5 l Milk
• Sugar (as needed)
• 6 pcs Egg yolks
• Vanilla (a little)
• Cinnamon (a little)
• 1 tbsp Starch

Instructions

1. Melt the chocolate over heat with a little water and simmer slowly with milk, sugar, and spices for half an hour.
2. Stir the egg yolks and starch with reserved milk, gradually add some of the chocolate milk while stirring constantly, then vigorously whisk this mixture into the boiling milk.
3. Remove from heat, continue whisking, and serve the cream chilled.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.