Name: 2. Cocoa Shells.
Ingredients: one half cup shells to 1 quart boiling water; 1 quart boiling water; 1 cup of the shells may be used

2. Cocoa Shells.

A beverage made by simmering cocoa shells in water, served with cream, milk, evaporated milk, or sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

2. Cocoa Shells.

Ingredients

one half cup shells to 1 quart boiling water
1 quart boiling water
1 cup of the shells may be used

Directions

Prepare and simmer

Wash the shells in a strainer under the faucet.
Put the shells in the pot, pour on boiling water, and simmer gently for 1/2 hour.

Serve

Strain off, and serve with cream, or milk, or evaporated milk and sugar.

By Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.