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Cracked Cocoa

A hot cocoa beverage made by boiling water over cocoa, then boiling for 30 minutes, straining, and serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cracked Cocoa

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the cocoa.

  2. Boil for 30 minutes, then strain and serve.

  3. You can boil the same cocoa again the next day in fresh water.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Cocoa
Provides the chocolate flavor and deep color of the drink.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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