Rum Chocolate Truffles ◆ 1950s Recipe

Описание: ⚠️🍳 READ ME FIRST: Eating and cooking with raw eggs 🍳⚠️

Dear Viewers, our understanding of food hygiene, science and medicine has come a very long way in quite a short time, really when you think about how long humans have been cooking (according to the National Geographic, this was ‘sometime between 1.8 million and 400,000 years ago’). We learn more and more each year, so it’s not surprising that now and then we do stumble upon a recipe that looks great but has us scratching our heads a bit about whether one part of the method or ingredient is a good idea. This was the case with these truffles as one of the ingredients is a RAW EGG YOLK.

Eating raw eggs has been known to be potentially dangerous for a few decades now. Raw and partially cooked eggs and their shells can contain a bacteria called Salmonella which can cause food poisoning and more serious complications for vulnerable people and pregnant women. For this reason you must be careful and do your reading (as we did) before attempting this recipe and omit the egg yolk altogether if the truffles will be eaten by someone who is more vulnerable, pregnant, or just to be safe overall. You can always add in a little more chocolate or cocoa powder to the mixture to act as a binding agent instead!

Every country has different guidance when it comes to eating/cooking with raw or semi-raw egg yolk, so be sure to refer to the right information. As we live in the UK we went straight to the NHS guidance page (https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well...) which says that it is considered safe to eat raw or lightly cooked eggs here UNLESS they are:

🔹 not British Lion stamped;
🔹 not hen eggs (e.g. duck or quail eggs);
🔹 from outside the UK.

We followed the ‘rules’ carefully choosing our eggs, and luckily, all went well, although we decided to make sure they didn’t hang around for long, kept them refrigerated and ate them all within 12 hours and would advise that anyone making these in the same way would do so too.

Stay safe, everyone! Particularly in these Pandemic times 💖.

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★ About this recipe: This easy recipe for ‘Chocolate Rum Truffles’ was published in Good Housekeeping’s Cookery Compendium of 1958 (reprinted in 1959).

Wrapped up prettily, they’d make the perfect anniversary or Valentine's Day present. They’re equally good for scoffing by yourself in front of the television. If that’s the plan, why not go one step further and enjoy them in front of a classic film released in the same year that this recipe was printed: perhaps Some Like it Hot or North By Northwest?

Whatever the plan is, these classic truffles are sure to go down a treat!
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★ Ingredients:

85g chocolate (we used plain)
1 egg yolk
14g unsalted butter
1 tsp. whipping cream
1 tsp. rum
3 tbsp. cocoa powder

★ Full instructions: https://www.handeddown.co.uk/post/rum...
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★ Book Details: Good Housekeeping’s Cookery Compendium (1958, reprinted 1959)
By: The Good Housekeeping Institute
Publisher: The National Magazine Co. Ltd. And printed by Letterpress by Sun Printers Ltd. (Watford, England, U.K.)
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