Ahira's Hangar

Chocolate Mousse
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You need 1 egg, and 50 grams of dark chocolate per person.

(Don't use cooking chocolate, or chocolate with too high a cocoa content, or it won't melt properly. But it has to be dark chocolate. If you use milk chocolate, it's blasphemy against the culinary gods.)

Break chocolate into chunks in a glass dish or double boiler. (Optional: mix a teaspoon of instant coffee and 2 tablespoons of water and add to chocolate)

Melt on a low heat, while stirring frequently with a steel or silver spoon.

Once melted, break eggs, seperating yolk and white. Mix one yolk at a time into chocolate, stirring until mixed in before adding the next.

Put all egg whites into a seperate dish, and beat till the whites are stiff. (The more air you get into this mixture, the better.)

Fold the beaten egg white into the chocolate mixture slowly until mixed in smoothly.

Refrigerate until firm.

(Once you've tasted this, you'll snicker behind your hand when you see people order chocolate mousse in a resturant, and you'll spit on anybody who dares to serve you chocolate mousse made with milk chocolate.)

It's incredibly rich and filling, and makes a fantastic breakfast as well.

Hope you enjoy it.

Where did you get this Menolly? I thought the only person I gave it to was Infelice. Weird. Anybody ever try this yet? Was my mothers recipe, and her mothers before that and so on into the mists of time.

--A

*blush*

Thanks Duchess