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How to Make Hot Cocoa

4 tablespoons cocoa
4 tablespoons sugar
feww 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 till boiling point. Cook 15 minutes in a doubleboiler. 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)