Coffee, Chocolate, Etc
Ingredients
Directions
Break the chocolate into small pieces and place it in a mortar.
Add cold water and set it over low heat.
Stir gently until the mixture is smooth like custard.
Pour into deep cups and serve with sugar and iced water.
Accompany with delicate dried toast cut into narrow strips or ladies' fingers.
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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