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Cocoa Shells

A beverage made by boiling cocoa shells in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cocoa Shells

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the cocoa shells.

  2. Boil rapidly for 30 minutes.

  3. Serve like coffee.

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

Cocoa shells
Provide the main cocoa flavour and aroma that the water extracts into the drink.

“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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