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Wa Ter Cho Cola Te

A beverage made by dissolving chocolate in boiling water and sweetening with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Wa Ter Cho Cola Te

Ingredients

Directions

Melt the chocolate

  1. Pour boiling water into a chocolate urn.

  2. Scrape or break a cake of chocolate into the water.

  3. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes.

Mill and simmer

  1. Mill the mixture until the chocolate is fully dissolved.

  2. Return to heat and simmer for 1 minute.

Sweeten and serve

  1. Add sugar to taste and serve with soda biscuits, rolls, toast, or cake.

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. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the main flavor and body, with cocoa fat giving the drink a rich mouthfeel.
Boiling water
Melts the chocolate and carries its flavor through the drink.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the bitterness of the chocolate.

The step that matters

Milling until fully dissolved. Chocolate is a suspension of cocoa solids and cocoa butter. If it is not thoroughly dispersed, the drink stays grainy and the fat can separate on top instead of blending smoothly.

“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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