One ought to chuse the smallest Cinnamon, the highest coloured, and of the most biting Taste, as well as sweet and spicy, because a great Part is full of Pieces, from whence they have drawn the Essence, and has neither any Colour nor Taste, but that of the Wood. To help and amend both, there needs only a Clove to be ground in the Mortar, with an Ounce of Cinnamon. This Spice is best that comes from the East-Indies, it has nothing of Acrid in it, and contains an oleous Volatile, which agrees very well with that of Chocolate. Cinnamon also has always kept its Place in all the Compositions of Chocolate.
[(a)] New Voyage round the World, Tom. 1. Chap. 10.
[(89)] Thomas Gage, Tom. 1. Part 2. Pag. 142.
MEDICINES
In whose Composition
Oil or Butter
OF
CHOCOLATE
Is made use of.
The Wonderful Plaister for the Curing of all sorts of Ulcers.
Take Oil-Olive a Pound, Venetian Ceruss, in Powder, half a Pound.
Put them in a Copper Pan, or a glazed Earthen one, upon a clear moderate Fire, stirring them continually with a wooden Spatula till the Mixture is become black, and almost of the Consistence of a Plaister, (which you may know by letting fall two or three Drops upon a Pewter Plate; for if they grow cold immediately, and do not stick to the Fingers, when touch’d, it is done enough.) Then must be added,
Of Bees-Wax cut in little Bits, an Ounce and a half.
Oil or Butter of Chocolate, an Ounce.
Balsam Capivi, an Ounce and a half.