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A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).

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A historical recipe

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.

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

United States This recipe is known as American, but other nations also prepare similar recipes.

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). 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.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one pint milk
  2. three tablespoonfuls grated cocoa

Method

  1. To one pint milk and one pint cold water add three tablespoonfuls grated cocoa.
  2. Boil fifteen or twenty minutes, milling or whipping as directed in foregoing recipe.
  3. Sweeten to taste, at the table.
  4. Some persons like a piece of orange-peel boiled with it.--Mrs.
  5. S.
  6. T.

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