I Made Chocolate Pudding from a 150-Year-Old Cookbook

If you enjoy the videos we make; buy us a cup of tea: https://ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking Today we’re stepping back into culinary history with a recipe from The Home Cookbook, a fascinating Canadian community cookbook published in Toronto in 1877 and compiled by the Ladies of Toronto and Chief Cities and Towns in Canada. This historic cookbook captures a unique moment in Canadian food history — where traditional techniques like keeping your own yeast sit alongside newer conveniences like compressed yeast cakes from the market. Today’s recipe? Chocolate Cream — an early version of what we’d now call: ✔ Chocolate pudding ✔ Chocolate custard ✔ Or even a base for homemade chocolate ice cream But as with many 19th-century recipes, there are mysteries… What does “half a cake of chocolate” mean in 1877? Why does this recipe melt chocolate in hot water?! Why does it instruct you to boil a custard? Using period references from Walter Baker & Company chocolate packaging, we decode historical ingredient measurements and recreate this vintage Canadian dessert recipe exactly as written — then test whether Victorian cooking techniques still hold up today. Along the way we explore: 📜 19th century recipe writing styles 🥛 Pre-homogenized milk delivery in Canadian cities 🍫 Early chocolate packaging and measurements ❄️ Ice boxes, cold cellars, and chilling desserts in winter 👩‍🍳 How community cookbooks preserved regional food traditions Does this historic chocolate pudding still work by modern standards? Or does this 150-year-old custard need a few updates? Watch as we recreate, taste test, and troubleshoot this vintage chocolate cream recipe from 1877 Toronto — and discover what dessert might have tasted like in a Victorian Canadian kitchen. CHOCOLATE CREAM Recipe Mrs. King. Half a cake of chocolate dissolved in a little hot water; put in a cup of milk, and when it boils have five eggs well beaten and mixed with two cups of milk; pour the hot chocolate into the eggs and milk; stir well and boil all together for a few minutes; sweeten to your taste. To be eaten cold. More info about Hope Air: https://hopeair.ca/ 2026 Hope Air Donation: http://www.hopeair.ca/glen Here is the link to our Apron: https://searchandrescuedenim.com/prod... https://searchandrescuedenim.com/GLEN... Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING Buy us a cup of tea: https://ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking Help us out with a PayPal donation: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Join this channel:    / @glenandfriendscooking   This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking. #LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking Check out our Aviation and Flying Channel:    / glenshangar