[Vwoolf] Chocolate creams

[Dr T. Tate]

Dear Anne, Glendinning gets this anecdote from Leonard Woolf's 
autobiography -- I think it is at the beginning of Downhill All the Way -- 
worth checking for details. best wishes, Trudi Tate Cambridge 
https://truditateblog.wordpress.com
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> 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 make me chocolate 
> hungry. The plural seems to be important - any ideas?
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> 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 Jacob's Room is partial to 
> chocolate creams and so might I if I knew what they were!
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> Margaret Cole sends 'chocolate creams' to Leonard in 1967 after reading 
> Beginning Again (Glendinning) and other readers reputedly wished they 
> could.
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> It's frivolous I know but sometimes....Looking forward to another great 
> conference in Reading.
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>Warm wishes
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> Anne Byrne 
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