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Cocoa

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. two cups milk
  3. two tablespoons sugar
  4. One and one-half tablespoons cocoa
  5. two cups boiling water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. One and one-half tablespoons cocoa;
  2. two tablespoons sugar;
  3. two cups milk;
  4. two cups boiling water.
  5. Add sugar and a few grains of salt to cocoa, mix with one-half cup boiling water and stir to a smooth paste;
  6. add the remaining water and boil one minute.
  7. Add scalding milk and beat with am egg-beater to prevent scum forming.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon