How to make Chocolate.
MIX six pounds of coaco-nuts, one pound of anifeeds, four
ounces of long pepper, one of cinnamon, a quarter of a pound of
almonds, one pound of pistachios, as much achiote as will make
it the colour of brick, three grains of musk, and as much amber-
grease: fix pounds of loaf sugar, one ounce of nutmegs; dry and
beat them, and force them through a fine sieve; beat your al-
monds to a paste, and mix with the other ingredients; then dip
your sugar in orange-flower, or rose water, and put it in a skillet,
on a very gentle charcoal fire, then put in the spice, and stir it
well together; then the musk and amber-grease; then put in the
coaco-nuts last of all; then achiote, wetting it with the water the
sugar was dipt in; stew all these very well together over a hotter
fire than before; then take it up, and put it into boxes, or what
form you like, and set it to dry in a warm place. The pistachios
and almonds must be a little beat in a mortar, and afterwards
ground upon a stone.