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Cracked Cocoa

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United States

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Cocoa
  2. three pints water

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. 16 cup cracked cocoa 3 pints boiling water Boil cracked cocoa and water two hours.
  2. Strain, and serve with milk and sugar.
  3. If cocoa is pounded in a mortar and soaked over night in three pints water, it will require but one hour’s boiling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1922), printed page 40, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bostoncookingsch0000fann_r6c1

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.