Chocolatl Drink

[Twitchin Kitten]

This is a distinctly South American drink and it's still popular in South America today.

This is the correct spelling, and if the descriptions of the Cortez party
are correct, then this is the drink. When the Aztecs were drinking a
beverage made from the cacao tree it tasted nothing like what we know in
our time. The drink that Montezuma loved, and supposedly drank by the
potful, had hot pepper in it and no sugar at all. After reading some of the
responses of the Europeans to the beverage, I have developed the following
easy recipe. I doubt that you will be drinking this every morning but it is
fun to try now and then. ~ Jeff Smith from: The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American

Chocolatl Drink

Ingredients:

2 cups chicken soup stock
or, canned chicken
1/2 teaspoon plain cocoa powder
1 drop or more tabasco to taste
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon


That's it. Heat the chicken stock and season it with the cocoa, Tabasco,
vanilla, and cinnamon.