Winter Cocoa Recipes

How to Make Hot Cocoa

• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• few grains of salt
• 1 cup hot water
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Place cocoa, sugar and salt in the top of a double boiler, and mix well. Add hot water slowly, stirring constantly, and cook over direct heat for 3 minutes. Add milk and stir.

Place over boiling water in the bottom of a doubler boiler, and cook slowly, stirring constantly, until milk is hot. Remove from heat, and beat with a rotary beater or fork for 1 minute. Add vanilla and stir. Serve hot. Top with marshmallows or whipped cream, if desired.
Recipe from 1961

Hot Chocolate

• 2 squares chocolate
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cups cold water
• 2 cups milk

Melt chocolate; add sugar and cold water and heat until boiling point. Cook 15 minutes in a double boiler. Add milk and heat again. Remove from flame as soon as boiling point is reached.
Recipe from 1937

Cocoa

• 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Few grains of salt
• 2 cups boiling water
• 2 cups milk

Mix cocoa, sugar and salt, add 1/2 cup boiling water and when blended add remaining water and boil 5 minutes; turn into milk, which has been scalded, and beat 2 minutes using an egg-beater.
Recipe from 1937

French Chocolate

• 2 1/2 squares bitter chocolate
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Salt to taste
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup whipping cream, whipped
• 4 cups heated milk

Cook the chocolate with water until thick, stirring to prevent sticking. Add sugar and salt. Bring to a boil, remove from heat. Cool. Add vanilla. Fold in whipped cream. Makes about 2 1/2 cups sauce. Place a generous spoonful of sauce in each of 4 serving cups. Refrigerate additional sauce for future use. Add hot milk to fill cup. Stir until mixed.
Recipe from 1974