Chocolate Milk

• There are very few things that I do not like to eat or drink.
• But one thing I do not like is a drink made with hot milk.
• However I love cold chocolate milk or chocolate milkshake.
• The basis of this drink is my recipe for chocolate sauce.
• You can leave out the egg yolks but they do make the drink more nourishing.
• You can keep the base in a bottle with a cap in the fridge for a few days.
  

  Ingredients

• 250ml of milk (full fat is best)
• 50g of granulated sugar
• 20g of cocoa or 50g of dark chocolate
• 1-1½ tablespoonfuls of potato starch (you can use cornflour – if potato flour is not available)
• 2 egg yolks – optional.
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• Cold milk to mix up the drink.

Method – with cocoa

• • Put 150ml of the milk into a saucepan.
  • Heat gently – stirring all the time until boiling point.
  • Take it of the heat.
  • Blend together the rest of the milk (100ml) with the sugar, cocoa and potato flour.
  • Add the heated milk to this and stir well.
  • Put the mixture back in the pan and heat gently, stirring till it thickens .
  • Add the egg yolks and stir these well in.
  • Leave to go cold and pour into a lidded bottle or similar.
  • Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

• Method – with chocolate

  • • Put 150ml of the milk into a saucepan.
    • Add the chocolate.
    • Heat gently – stirring all the time until boiling point.
    • Check that all the chocolate has dissolved.
    • Take it of the heat.
    • Blend together the rest of the milk (100ml) with the sugar and potato flour .
    • Add the heated milk and chocolate to this and stir well.
    • Put the mixture back in the pan and heat gently, stirring till it thickens .
    • Add the egg yolks and stir these well in.
    • Leave to go cold and pour into a lidded bottle or similar.
    • Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

Mix the chocolate base with cold milk to taste.