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

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Cocoa
  3. Milk
  4. Vanilla
  5. Water
  6. Cocoa paste
  7. Salt
  8. a spoonful of whipped cream

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. Mix cocoa, sugar, salt and water.
  2. Boil ten minutes.
  3. Heat milk in double-boiler, add to this the cocoa paste.
  4. Cook twenty minutes.
  5. Add vanilla.
  6. An attractive way to serve cocoa is to place a spoonful of whipped cream on top of each cup.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
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Credit

From Foods and cookery and the care of the house (1921), printed page 32, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924003576133

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.