Cocoa

Ingredients

• 6 teaspoonfuls of cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups of boiling water
• 1 1/2 cups of boiling milk

Method

1. 1

   Put cocoa in a double boiler, add boiling water and boiling milk, and stir well.

2. 2

   Cook until hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cocoa ; and Mother Blair said they would have a dish of scrambled eggs for anybody who did not like cheese. And, last of SUPPER IN THE WOODS 31 all, they would have little hot brown biscuits and honey; Fanner Dunn always had beautiful honey. **Now, let us plan things out/' said Mildred. ** You and Brownie and I, Mother, can go out to the House in the Woods by trolley, and get the fires going and the table all ready; and Father and Jack can drive out with the others just at supper-time, and then we can all go back to- gether afterward." This seemed the very best way of managing ; so early one Saturday after- noon they reached the little house, and while Mildred and her mother went in and opened the windows and looked all around to see if every- thing was as they left it. Brownie ran off for Farmer Dunn, who soon brought wood and made up rousing fires in the rooms. By the time the baskets were unpacked on the kitchen table, he was ready to go back to his house and get milk and cream and eggs and butter and honey. As the Blairs always left the house ready to open at a moment's notice, they had sugar and flour and salt and things like that in the pantry. Mildred and Brownie laid the table, putting on plates and cups and glasses, and they rubbed the forks and spoons and made them as bright 32 THE FUN OF COOKINa as the sunshine. When it was all done, they got a beautiful great bunch of feathery pine branches for a centerpiece, and then it looked exactly as though the table knew there was go- ing to be a party. ^*It is nearly five o'clock,*' their mother caUed to them as they finished. * * It is time we began to get supper. Brownie, here is a receipt for you ; do you think you can manage it all alone? ' ' **0f course,'' said Brownie, with great dig- nity. * * Only you might just tell me how, first. ' ' Mother Blair laughed, and read the receipt over to her, and told her what to do. STUFFED BAKED POTATOES Take six large potatoes, wash and scrub them well, and bake them for about forty minutes in a hot oven, or till they are done. Take one potato at a time, hold it in a towel, and cut it in two, lengthwise. Scoop out the inside with a spoon into a hot bowL When all six are ready, add % teaspoonful of salt and 1 teaspoonful of butter, beating and mashing well till they are light; then fill the potato shells, heaping them full; arrange in a shallow pan, and set it in the oven; bake about ten minutes, or till they are brown. As soon as Brownie was busy with the pota- toes, Mildred said she would make the cocoa, be- cause that could stand and wait while other things cooked. Her mother told her to get the SUPPER IN THE WOODS 33 double boiler, put some hot water in the outside, and set it on the stove. Then she gave her this receipt : COCOA 6 teaspoonfuls of cocoa. 1^ cups of boiling water. 1% cups of boiling milk.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.