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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>VW’s
mother-in-law had a ‘passion for chocolate creams’ (<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">L</I>4 241). This passion was shared by VW
(<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">L</I>2 62) and<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I>LW (L. Woolf “Beginning Again” 1964:
15), and in 1918 they bought three bars from a shop near Richmond Bridge run by
a Belgian refugee: ‘The Great War was at last over’ (L. Woolf 1964:
257).</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>I
didn’t realise that this was a problem! As far as I’m concerned, I think
of choc. creams as a small dark chocolate with inside a creamy white
filling. The OED gives:</SPAN></DIV>
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<H3 id=eid336341173><FONT size=3><SPAN
class=numbering><STRONG>2.</STRONG></SPAN> An item or type of chocolate
confectionery with a fondant centre. Freq. <EM title=attributive>attrib.</EM>,
esp. in <SPAN id=eid336732940 class=lemmaInDef>chocolate-cream
bar</SPAN>.</FONT></H3></DIV>
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<DIV id=eid790342021 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid790342031
class=noIndent><SPAN>1851 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0121386">Daily National Intelligencer</A></EM> 18
Dec. (<EM>advt.</EM>) </SPAN> The subscriber begs leave to state
that he has received a great variety of imported and domestic Confectionary,
viz. Fancy Boxes, <SPAN class=quotationKeyword>Chocolate Cream</SPAN>, Gum Drops
of superior flavors, [etc.].</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729088 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729241
class=noIndent><SPAN>1860 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0346739">N.Y. Times</A></EM> 10 Apr. 3/4
(<EM>advt.</EM>) </SPAN> Maillard's Chocolate... <SPAN
class=quotationKeyword>Chocolate Creams</SPAN>, Chocolate Caramels,
[etc.].</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729098 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729247
class=noIndent><SPAN>1861 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0237975">Illustr. London News</A></EM> 9 Feb.
124/2 (<EM>advt.</EM>) </SPAN> Frys' <SPAN
class=quotationKeyword>Chocolate Creams</SPAN>.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid9543246 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid154465206
class=noIndent><SPAN>1879 </SPAN><SPAN class=smallCaps>C. M. Yonge</SPAN>
<EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this); class=sourcePopup
style="rel: 0529505">Magnum Bonum</A></EM> I. iv. 58</SPAN> We'd got
nothing to eat but <SPAN class=quotationKeyword>chocolate creams</SPAN>.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729107 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729253
class=noIndent><SPAN>1893 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0388382">Proc. Ackworth Old Scholars'
Assoc.</A></EM> <STRONG>12</STRONG> 34</SPAN> To one unaccustomed to
boys and their ways, a jam tart, a bar of <SPAN class=quotationKeyword>chocolate
cream</SPAN>, a cocoanut, and a mixture known as turkish delight..would seem to
break the elementary laws of health.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid310401614 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729259
class=noIndent><SPAN>1906 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0120812">Daily Chron.</A></EM> 25 July
6/4</SPAN> A shop-worn <SPAN class=quotationKeyword>chocolate-cream
bar</SPAN>.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729115 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729265
class=noIndent><SPAN>1917 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0312626">McClure's Mag.</A></EM> Mar.
48/1</SPAN> In the Lowney factories most <SPAN
class=quotationKeyword>chocolate cream</SPAN> centers are fashioned in
molds.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729123 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729277
class=noIndent><SPAN>1992 </SPAN><SPAN class=smallCaps>M. Baren</SPAN>
<EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this); class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0033101">How
it all Began</A></EM> 25/1</SPAN> The increased demand was at least
partly due to the introduction of the now famous <SPAN
class=quotationKeyword>chocolate cream bar</SPAN> in 1866.</DIV>
<DIV id=eid336729131 class=quotation><SPAN id=eid336729283
class=noIndent><SPAN>2012 </SPAN><EM><A onclick=viewSourcePopup(this);
class=sourcePopup style="rel: 0506750">Weekend Austral.</A></EM> (Nexis) 21 Apr.
17</SPAN> This is a romantic comedy, after all—as sweet as a box of
soft-centred <SPAN class=quotationKeyword>chocolate creams</SPAN>.</DIV></DIV>
<P class=quotations><SPAN class=quotationDate
style="DISPLAY: none">1851—2012</SPAN><A
onclick="toggleQuotations(this, 'eid336341175'); return false;"
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style='href: "http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/431323?redirectedFrom=chocolate+creams#"'></A></P></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>However,
on the TV yesterday on an antiques programme, an enamel advert from what I took
to be 1910-26 of the famous Fry’s 5 boys made me look at the boy on the R more
closely, and he seems to have a *bar* of chocolate in his mouth rather than a
choc. with a fondant centre. This here is not the ad. I saw, but similar of
course (it was clearer on the one I saw):</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><A title=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00158N5FI?psc=1
href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00158N5FI?psc=1">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00158N5FI?psc=1</A></DIV>
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<DIV>You can find lots of them here:</DIV>
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title=https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=expectation+fry%27s+five+boys&FORM=HDRSC2
href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=expectation+fry%27s+five+boys&FORM=HDRSC2">https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=expectation+fry%27s+five+boys&FORM=HDRSC2</A></DIV>
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<DIV>This is the one I saw, but it was clearer on TV (& sold for at least
£2000 at auction!):</DIV>
<DIV><A
title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Chocolate_Cream#/media/File:Fry%27s_Chocolate_advertisement.JPG
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Chocolate_Cream#/media/File:Fry%27s_Chocolate_advertisement.JPG">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Chocolate_Cream#/media/File:Fry%27s_Chocolate_advertisement.JPG</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I thought that Fry’s choc. creams were always like this:</DIV>
<DIV><A title=https://www.cadbury.ie/products/Chocolate-Cream-2454?p=2454
href="https://www.cadbury.ie/products/Chocolate-Cream-2454?p=2454">https://www.cadbury.ie/products/Chocolate-Cream-2454?p=2454</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I think I may be wrong: look at “Beginning Again” p. 257 more
carefully. In summary, I think chocolate cream bars were either as
described by the OED or were the equivalent of bars of milk chocolate (similar
to what we get today).</DIV>
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<DIV>If anyone gets any further with this, I should be pleased to hear -- to
help me with “Jacob’s Room, of course.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=anne.byrne@nuigalway.ie>Byrne, Anne (Soc & Pol)</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 31, 2017 11:29 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>Woolf List</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Chocolate Creams?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT color=#454545
face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt">Morning All- I have a research
quest which you might be able to help me with? I am looking for an explanation
of what 'chocolate creams' meant in post WW1 Britain. Why? I need an image of
chocolate creams as recognised by Leonard and Virginia but as I don't know what
the term means I am somewhat at a standstill. Are 'chocolate creams' hand
made (or not) confectionary (sweets in a box), biscuits (perhaps like bourbons
or oreos today) or are they a chocolate bar (think Fry's) or some sort of desert
made of chocolate and cream? My mind is frazzled by the puzzle and I have
to say looking at the pictures of chocolate does </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 28px">make me</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt">
chocolate</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#454545 face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt"> hungry. The plural seems to be important - any ideas?
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: '.SF UI Display'; COLOR: rgb(69,69,69); MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt; FONT-FAMILY: '.SFUIDisplay'">The context as you probably
can guess is that Virginia and Leonard celebrated the end of the war together,
sitting by the fire, 'sacramentally' eating 'chocolate creams', purchased from a
Belgian confectioner on Richmond Hill (see Glendinning). The Bloomsbury Cookbook
by Jans Ondaatje Rolls gives a recipe for same but according to a Guardian
review this is more like a Swiss roll (Regretfully I don't have a copy of the
book to check). Florinda in <I>Jacob's Room</I> is partial to chocolate creams
and so might I if I knew what they were! </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: '.SF UI Display'; COLOR: rgb(69,69,69); MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt; FONT-FAMILY: '.SFUIDisplay'">Margaret Cole sends
'chocolate creams' to Leonard in 1967 after reading <I>Beginning Again
</I>(Glendinning) and other readers reputedly wished they could. </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21pt; FONT-FAMILY: '.SFUIDisplay'; COLOR: rgb(69,69,69)">It's
frivolous I know but sometimes....Looking forward to another </SPAN><FONT
color=#454545 face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 28px">great conference
in Reading.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT color=#454545
face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 28px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT color=#454545
face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 28px">Warm wishes</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT color=#454545
face=.SFUIDisplay><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 28px">Anne
Byrne</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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