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Cracked Cocoa

A historical drink recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Cracked Cocoa
  • 3 pints Boiling Water

Make it

Method

  1. 1

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

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Where this recipe comes from

Cracked Cocoa, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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