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Chocolate Dominoes
1/2 cup pecan nut meat 1/2 cup dates 1/2 cup English walnut meat Grated rind 1 orange 1/2 cup figs 1 tablespoon orange juice 1 square chocolate, melted Mix nut meats, figs, and dates, and force through a meat chopper, or chop finely. Add remaining ingredients, toss on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar, and roll to one-third inch in thickness. Cut in domino shapes, spread thinly with melted unsweetened chocolate, and decorate with small pieces blanched almonds to imitate dominoes.
Cream Pie I 1/3 cup butter 1/2 cup milk 1 cup sugar 1 3/4 cups flour 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder Mix as One Egg Cake. Bake in round layer cake pans. Put Cream Filling between layers and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.
An uncooked confection of dried fruit and nuts bound only by its own stickiness, cut into rectangles and dressed up as dominoes. It needs no heat beyond melting the chocolate.
- The hinge: chop dry, not wetEverything depends on the fruit and nuts breaking down into a paste that coheres with no more moisture than the tablespoon of orange juice called for. A food processor works, but pulse rather than run it, or the nut oil separates and the mass turns greasy. A meat grinder, as written, gives a good texture.
- Figs and datesUse soft dried figs (Mission or Calimyrna) with the hard stem tips cut off, and pitted dates. If either is dry and leathery, steam briefly or soak ten minutes in hot water and pat thoroughly dry, otherwise the mixture will not hold together.
- One square of chocolateA square meant one ounce of unsweetened baking chocolate. The instructions are ambiguous: "add remaining ingredients" appears to take in the melted chocolate, yet the method then calls for melted unsweetened chocolate for the coating. Most likely the single square is meant for the coating.
- Powdered sugarConfectioners' sugar, used only to keep the paste from sticking to the board and rolling pin. Use it sparingly and dust the pin as well.
- Rolling and cuttingOne-third of an inch is close to 8 mm. Roll between two sheets of parchment if the paste fights you, chill it 20 minutes, then cut into rectangles roughly 1 by 2 inches with a long knife wiped between cuts.
- DecoratingSpread the melted chocolate thin, then set the almond pieces while it is still wet, in domino pip patterns with a dividing line across the middle. Slivered blanched almonds cut into short lengths are easier to place than whole nuts.
- Yield and keepingPerhaps two dozen pieces, depending how large you cut them. Store in a single layer between parchment in a tin; they should keep a week or two and will firm as they sit.