Grand Operas - 1936

2 cups sugar
2/3 cup heavy cream
1 cup milk
4 Tablespoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup broken pecans
4 squares Baker's chocolate

Combine sugar, cream, milk, corn syrup, and salt, and heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture boils, stirring constantly. Continue cooking, stirring constantly. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until a small amount of syrup forms a soft ball in cold water (234 degrees F). Cook to lukewarm (110 degrees F) and add vanilla. Beat until mixture begins to thicken; then add nuts and continue beating only until mixture loses its gloss. Turn at once into greased pan, 8x8 inches. Cool. Heat chocolate over boiling water until partly melted; then remove from boiling water and stir it rapidly until entirely melted. Pour over candy. Cool until firm. Cut in squares. Makes 64 pieces.

Source: Chocolate Candies You Can Make, copyright 1936, General Foods Corporation

Chocolate Cream Pie - 1936

3 squares Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate
2 1/2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
6 Tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 Tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 baked 9-inch pie shell

2 egg whites
4 Tablespoons sugar

Add chocolate to milk and heat in double boiler. When chocolate is melted, beat with rotary egg beater until blended. Combine sugar, flour, and salt; add gradually to chocolate mixture and cook until thickened, stirring constantly; then continue cooking 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add egg yolks gradually, stirring vigorously; cook 2 minutes longer. Add butter and vanilla. Cool. Turn into pie shell. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout; add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition until sugar is blended. Then continue beating until mixture will stand in peaks. Pile lightly on filling. Bake in moderate oven (350) 15 minutes. Sprinkle 1/2 Baker's Coconut, Premium Shred, over meringue before browning, if desired. Or substitute whipped cream for meringue.

Recipe taken from Baker's Famous Chocolate Recipes, copyright 1936 by General Foods Corporation