26 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 
the scumme which was taken off before, and so to drink it. But the 
most ordinary way is to warme the water very hot, and then to powre 
out half the cup full that you mean to drink ; and to put intoit a 
tablet or two, or as much as will thicken reasonably the water, and 
then grinde it well with the Molinet, and when it is well ground and 
risen to a scumme, to fill the cup with hot water, and so drink it by 
sups (having sweetened it with sugar), and to eat it with a little 
conserve or maple bred, steeped into the chocolatte. 
‘« Besides these ways there is another way (which is much used in 
the Island of Santo Domingo), which is to put the chocolatte into a 
pipkin with a little water, and to let it boyle well till it be dissolved, 
and then to put in sufficient water and sugar according to the quantity 
of the chocolatte, and then to boyle it again untill there comes an oily 
scumme upon it, and then to drink it. 
‘* There is another way yet to drink chocolatte, which is cold, which 
the Indians use at feasts to refresh themselves, and it is made after 
this manner: The chocolatte (which is made with none, or very few, 
ingredients) being dissolved in cold water with the Molinet, they 
take off the scumme or crassy part, which riseth in great quantity, 
especially when the cacao is older and more putrefied. The scumme 
they lay aside in a little dish by itself, and then put sugar into that 
part from whence was taken the scumme, and then powre it from on 
high into the scumme, and so drink it cold. And this drink is so cold 
that. it agreeth not with all men’s stomachs ; for by experience it hath 
been found that it doth hurt by causing pains in the stomach, espe- 
cially to women. 
‘The third way of taking it is the most used, and thus certainly it 
doth no hurt, neither know I why it may not be used as well in Eng- 
land as in other parts, both hot and cold; for where it is so much 
used, the most, if not all, as well in the Indias as in Spain, Italy, 
Flanders (which is a cold countrey), find that it agreeth well with 
them. True it is, it is used more in the Indias than in the European 
