CHOCOLATE.
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Plain Chocolate.
Roasted cocoa beans or nuts are placed in a heated mortar, and ground to a paste with the pestle. It is then poured into molds to cool. Grind the cake into powder; in this form it is sweetened, flavored, and adulterated to suit.
French Chocolate.
Chocolate Flour 3 pounds
Powdered Sugar 1 ”
Vanilla Beans ¼ oz.
Grind the vanilla beans and the sugar together in a mortar, then grind the whole together. Pour into molds.
Adulteration.
To adulterate, use plenty powdered sugar and corn starch. Sweet chocolate is made this way.
Spanish Aromatic Chocolate.
Triturate or grind together:
Pulverized Chocolate 11 lbs.
White Sugar 3 ”
Vanilla Beans 1 oz.
Cinnamon ¼ ”
Cloves ½ drachm.
If a cheaper chocolate is wanted, add pulverized sugar.