Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke: By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New DiseaseColmenero de Ledesma, Antonio
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Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke: By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease
Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio
Chocolate -- Early works to 1800
_If you please to take it in milke, to a quart, three ounces of
_Chocolate_ will be sufficient: Scrape your _Chocolate_ very fine, put
it into your milke when it boiles, work it very well with the
_Spanish_ Instrument called _Molenillo_ between your hands: which
Instrument must be of wood, with a round knob made very round, and cut
ragged, that as you turne it in your hands, the milke may froth and
dissolve the _Chocolate_ the better: then set the milke on the fire
againe, untill it be ready to boyle: having the yelke of two eggs well
beaten with some of the hot milke; then put your eggs into the milke,
and _Chocolate_ and _Sugar_, as much as you like for your taste, and
worke all together with the _Molenillo_, and thus drinke a good
draught: or if you please you may slice a little Manchet into a dish,
and so eate it for a breakfast: you may if you please make your
_Chocolate_ with Water and Sugar, working it after the same order with
your _Molenillo_, which for some weake stomacks may chance to be
better liked. And many there be that beat Almonds, and strayne them
into the water it is boyled, and wrought with the _Chocolate_ and
Sugar: others like to put the yelkes of eggs as before in the milke,
and even sweeten it with Sugar to your taste: If you drinke a good
draught of this in a morning, you may travell all the day without any
other thing, this is so Substantiall and Cordiall._
_The manner of making_ Chocolate.
Set a Pot of Conduit Water over the fire untill it boiles, then to
every person that is to drink, put an ounce of _Chocolate_, with as
much Sugar into another Pot; wherein you must poure a pint of the said
boiling Water, and therein mingle the _Chocolate_ and the Sugar, with
the instrument called _El Molinillo_, untill it be thoroughly
incorporated: which done, poure in as many halfe pints of the said
Water as there be ounces of _Chocolate_, and if you please, you may
put in one or two yelks of fresh Eggs, which must be beaten untill
they froth very much; the hotter it is drunke, the better it is, being
cold it may doe harme. You may likewise put in a slice of white bred
or Bisquet, and eate that with the _Chocolate_. The newer and fresher
made it is, the more benefit you shall finde by it; that which comes
from forreigne parts, and is stale, is not so good as that which is
made here.
_FINIS._
Transcriber's Note:
In general, spelling and punctuation are as found. Changes have been
made as follows:
Sidenotes/footnotes:
Sidenotes converted to footnotes.
Markers [A], [B], [D], and [E] were placed where it seemed most
appropriate. Other markers were left where they occurred in the text.
Footnote [D] "Ta-asco." is unclear in the scan and was left as found.
Title Page:
The date 1652 is from the catalogue entry. The last digit is
obscured (165?) in the original.
Colminero changed to Colmenero (matches other occurrences in the text).
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