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French Chestnuts With Coffee Sauce

Peel three dozen chestnuts, boil them in their skins (not their shells) for five minutes in salted boiling water; peel off their skins, put them in a saucepan on the fire, with enough water to cover them, and two ounces of sugar; boil them until quite soft, without breaking. Put into another saucepan over the fire four yolks of egg, three ounces of sugar, a teacupful of black coffee, and half a glass of cream. Stir until it begins to boil, then strain it. Allow it to become cold, pour it over the chestnuts, and serve.