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Cocoa

A historical recipe from The Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895).

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A historical recipe

The Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895). Project Gutenberg eBook #34822.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Also printed in: A little girl's cookery book, by Caroline French Benton, Mary Florence Hodge (1911); A little cook book for a little girl, by Caroline French Benton (1905); The Fun of Cooking, by Caroline French Benton (1914).

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a teaspoonful of cocoa
  2. a cupful of boiling water
  3. a half cupful of boiling milk

Method

  1. Dissolve a teaspoonful of cocoa in half a cupful of boiling water;
  2. then add a half cupful of boiling milk and boil it for one minute, stirring vigorously all the time.
  3. Sweeten to taste.
  4. Brioche or Bath buns are good to serve with chocolate or cocoa for a light lunch.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #34822 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34822). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.