Cocoa

Ingredients

• One quart of milk
• Four table-spoonfuls of cocoa

Method

1. 1

   Put the milk on the fire in a farina kettle.

2. 2

   Moisten the cocoa with a little cold milk, and pour it into the milk in the kettle as soon as it boils, stirring all the while it is being added.

3. 3

   Stir until the milk again boils, cover the kettle, boil five minutes, and serve.

4. 4

   Whipped cream is often served with cocoa.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 242. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COCOA. Cocoa or chocolate nuts are the seeds of a tree growing in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. These seeds are roasted the same as coffee, until the aroma is brought out. They are then pounded to a paste in a hot moi tar or ground between rollers. The substance thus produced, when mixed with sugar, starch, vanilla and cinnamon, forms the chocolate of commerce. Cocoa is made by grinding the bean fine, partly extract- ing the oil, and mixing a small proportion of sugar with the remaining powder. Cocoa nibs are the bean deprived of its husks and then broken into small pieces. This is the purest and BEVERAGES. 559 best cocoa in our market. The shells or husks are also used to make a weak decoction for people with delicate digestion. TO MAKE COCOA. One quart of milk. Four table-spoonfuls of cocoa

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