Ingredients
- one quart of boiling water
- a cup of cracked cocoa
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Directions
Fill a baking dish with nice juicy apples, peeled, cored, and quartered. Strew sugar over them. Fit a plate closely over the dish, Avhich set in a larger pan, with hot water in the bottom, about an inch in depth. Set it in the oven, and bake till clear and tender. If they are not very juicy, put
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two ta])les})oons of water to them. Prepare the day previous for breakfast, — very nice.
In this age of adulteration, w^ise and cautious people, who like to know what they drink, use cracked cocoa, or shells and cocoa mixed. To half or three-quarters of a cup of cracked cocoa, add one quart of boiling water, and cook tw^o and a half or three hours. When sufficiently boiled, add sufficient hot water to make up for the evapo- ration and to make it the right strength. Add sufficient milk, and let the whole come to a boiling point, but do not let it boil, as boiled milk gives an unpleasant flavor ; or, you can heat the milk separately, adding a part to the cocoa pot and the rest to the cream pitcher, from which supply to your taste. The perfection of cocoa is its liberal supply of milk.
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BREAKFAST No. 3.
Whole Wheat and Milk. Rump Beefsteak. Baked Potatoes.
fJaised Biscuits {light as a foam). Coffee. Ripe Fruit.
WHOLE ^VHEAT.
This tempting dish can be eaten with a dressing of cream, milk, sugar, or sirup. Fruit sirups are a delicious dressing for it, — also, it is nice eaten as a veo-etable with meats. Select the white wheat, if it can be obtained, as it cooks more readily and looks more inviting. Wash it well, turn off all that rises to the surface of the water, then drain it dry. If there is any foreign matter, it should be picked out. Put it into an inner boiler, with five or six times its measure of boiling water. Add boiling water to the outer boiler and cook six or eight hours, or until all have opened out similar to the kernels of popped corn. For breakfast it should be cooked the day previous, and reheated like cracked wdieat.
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