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To: HungarianGypsy
I had a reproduction cookbook from the White House that was originally published around the 1900’s.

A lot of ingredients have changed.

In particular, I once followed a recipe for hot chocolate that included evaporated milk, only to discover that modern evaporated milk has half the water content of the original product.

It came out like chocolate cream, very sweet. Everyone loved the thickness of the drink, but we could not handle the sweetness.

4 posted on 08/09/2007 8:28:33 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

If you order hot chocolate in Italy today, you will get that same wonderful chocolate cream.


9 posted on 08/09/2007 9:04:25 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: texas booster

Eggs seem smaller also. I’ve learned that for old recipes, if I want them to turn out the way I’d planned, I have to substitute jumbo eggs for large or extra-large, and large for medium or small. JMO.

And don’t even get me started on CREAM, LOL!


15 posted on 08/09/2007 10:34:32 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (Your life may be the only Bible someone else reads.)
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