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Drinking Chocolate

From Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book 1953 (1953).

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A historical recipe

Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book 1953, by Aunt Daisy (Maud Basham) (1953).

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 2 cup cold water
  2. 2 cup cold milk

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 level dessertspoon best cocoa, put in saucepan with sugar to taste, and mixed smooth with y 2 cup cold water.
  2. Bring to the boil, add y 2 cup cold milk, and bring to boil again.
  3. Boil 1 minute.
  4. Stir, serve hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Aunt Daisy's Cookery Book 1953 (1953), printed page 405, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AuntDaisysCookeryBook1953

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.