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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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<span style="font-family:'.SFUIDisplay'; font-size:21pt">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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<span style="font-family:'.SFUIDisplay'; font-size:21pt">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="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: '.SFUIDisplay'; font-size: 21pt;">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>
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<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>
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