Cocoa Shells
Ingredients
Directions
Pour 3 pints of boiling water over 2 ounces of cocoa shells.
Boil rapidly for 30 minutes.
Serve like coffee.
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 shells
- Provide the cocoa flavour that is extracted into the boiling water, forming the drink.
The step that matters
Boil rapidly for 30 minutes. Boiling extracts flavour and colour from the shells into the water. Too little boiling leaves the drink weak, while the shells need enough heat and time to release their compounds into the liquid.
“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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