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Beeakfast Cocoa

A warm cocoa beverage made with cocoa powder, boiling water, boiled milk, and sweetener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa powder and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,427 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Beeakfast Cocoa

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the cocoa powder into a breakfast cup.

  2. Add the boiling water and mix thoroughly.

  3. Then add equal parts of boiling water and boiled milk.

  4. Sweeten to taste.

  5. Let it boil for a couple of minutes.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cocoa powder + milktop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cocoa powder
Provides the chocolate flavour and colour of the drink.
Milk
Adds creaminess and body, softening the bitterness of the cocoa.
Sweetener
Adds sweetness to balance the bitterness of the cocoa.

The step that matters

Add the boiling water and mix thoroughly. Cocoa powder clumps easily and resists dissolving in liquid. Mixing it first with a small amount of boiling water makes a smooth paste, which then blends evenly into the milk and water without lumps.

“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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