Cocoa - American Recipe

Cocoa

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Saucepan, Tablespoon

Traditional preparation of cocoa from the 1920s home kitchen.

Ingredients

• (For two cups of cocoa):
• 4 teaspoons cocoa
• 4 teaspoons sugar
• ½ cup water
• 1 cup milk
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Put — the cocoa, sugar, and water together in the saucepan, and stir over the fire until the boiling-point is reached.
2. Add — the milk, and stir again until the mixture boils.
3. Take — from the fire, stir in the vanilla, and serve.

Tags: milk, sugar, cocoa · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

If the cocoa is well beaten with a dover beater just after it is taken from the stove, the flavor will be much improved.