Cacao Nuts a Pound-A Taste of Hearth Cookery

The first step in Penelope Jephson’s circa 1674 manuscript receipt (recipe) To make Chocolate is to take a pound of cacao nut.  Since I am making half the receipt, there is one-half pound of fermented trinitario cacao beans in the mortar and pestle ready to be ground.

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