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Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke / By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease

Chapter 18: Transcriber’s Note:
By Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma
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A medical and culinary treatise that presents a cacao-based beverage as both a pleasurable drink and a panacea, describing its plant origin, ingredients, and methods of preparation alongside recipes and practical directions. The text catalogs claimed health effects — digestive aid, respiratory remedies, treatments for fluxes and internal ailments, stimulation of fertility, assistance in childbirth, cosmetic benefits, and preservation of general vigour — supported by endorsements, prefaces, and a translator's encomium. It combines empirical observations, therapeutic advice, dosage guidance, and social commentary on consumption habits, aiming to introduce the imported confection into domestic practice and to instruct readers in its uses and procurement.

The manner of making Chocolate.

Set a Pot of Conduit Water over the fire untill it boiles, then to every person that is to drink, put an ounce of Chocolate, with as much Sugar into another Pot; wherein you must poure a pint of the said boiling Water, and therein mingle the Chocolate and the Sugar, with the instrument called El Molinillo, untill it be thoroughly incorporated: which done, poure in as many halfe pints of the said Water as there be ounces of Chocolate, and if you please, you may put in one or two yelks of fresh Eggs, which must be beaten untill they froth very much; the hotter it is drunke, the better it is, being cold it may doe harme. You may likewise put in a slice of white bred or Bisquet, and eate that with the Chocolate. The newer and fresher made it is, the more benefit you shall finde by it; that which comes from forreigne parts, and is stale, is not so good as that which is made here.

FINIS.

Transcriber’s Note:

In general, spelling and punctuation are as found. Changes have been made as follows:

  • Title Page:
    • The date 1652 is from the catalogue entry. The last digit is obscured (165?) in the original.
    • Colminero changed to Colmenero (matches other occurrences in the text).
  • Poem:
  • First Point:
    • re-received changed to received
    • an-answered changed to answered
    • primaq; expanded to primaque
    • Removed duplicated word “it” in “though it excuse not”
    • Sidenote Ta-asco. is unclear in the scan and was left as found.
    • cumq; expanded to cumque
    • dulcisq; expanded to dulcisque
    • commõ expanded to common
  • Second Point:
    • Cocao changed to Cacao
    • Duplicated signature mark B4 changed to C4