Name: Cracked Cocoa
Ingredients: ½ cup cracked cocoa; 3 pints boiling water

Cracked Cocoa

A hot cocoa beverage made by boiling cracked cocoa with water, then straining and serving with milk and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

Cracked Cocoa

Ingredients

½ cup cracked cocoa
3 pints boiling water

Directions

Boil cracked cocoa and water for two hours.
Strain the mixture.
Serve with milk and sugar.
If cocoa is pounded in a mortar and soaked overnight in three pints water, boil for one hour.

By Fannie Merritt Farmer. 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.