Chocolate

Ingredients

• one tablespoon of the sweetened grated chocolate
• each cup of milk

Method

1. 1

   Put the required quantity of milk in a double boiler; when it is hot, wet the powder fine, put it in and boil for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Serve with sweetened whipped cream, two tablespoons on top of each cup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

chocolate made of milk } The best way to steep all kinds of tea is, take one even teaspoon of green tea for two cups of boiling water, after you have brought it just to a quick boil with two tablespoons of water. Black tea is coarser, take a heaping teaspoon for two cups and steep it the same way. The old custom of boiling black tea twenty minutes makes it blacker, but not a refreshing cup of tea. Wash and dry the tea steeper, tea pot, coffee boiler and coffee pot, every time they are used, as much as you do your silver; and scald them well before using. Do not use a metal tea pot. Green teas are an astringent. Cocoa. Cocoa or chocolate nuts are the seeds of Theobroma cacao, a handsome tree from fifteen to twenty feet in heighth growing in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. These seeds are roasted and ground and the oil partly extracted. These seeds make our cocoa. To make good cocoa allow one teaspoon to every cup of milk* Put the quantity of milk according to the number of persons to drink it in a double boiler. When it boils wet the cocoa, work it fine, put it in the hot milk and boil ten minutes and let it settle. ift. 32 The Queen Cook Book Chocolate. Chocolate is the cocoa nut pounded to a paste in a hot mortar; mixed with sugar, starch, cinnamon and vanilla it forms the chocolate of commerce. To make good chocolate take one tablespoon of the sweetened grated chocolate to each cup of milk

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