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Cracked Cocoa

A hot beverage made by boiling water with cracked cocoa, then straining.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cocoa

  1. Pour 1 quart of boiling water over ½ cup of cracked cocoa.

  2. Boil for 30 minutes.

  3. Strain and serve.

Reuse the cocoa

  1. You can reuse the cocoa by boiling it 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

Boiling water
Serves as the main liquid that extracts flavor and solids from the cocoa.
Cracked cocoa
Provides the chocolate flavor, color, and aroma as it infuses into the water.

“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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