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"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."
Such a drink well deserved the treatment it received at the hands of the Mexicans to whom we are indebted for it. At the royal banquets frothing chocolate was served in golden goblets with finely wrought golden or
ANCIENT MEXICAN DRINKING CUPS.
(British Museum.)
tortoise-shell spoons. The froth in this case was of the consistency of honey, so that when eaten cold it would gradually dissolve in the mouth. Here is a luscious suggestion for twentieth century housewives, handed to them from five hundred years ago!
In health or sickness, infancy or age, at home
