Hot Chocolate Mayan Style

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When cortez and those guys arrived in aztec country, they were unimpressed by these little dark brown beans everyone seemed to carry around, until they learned these were money -- 100 cacao beans would buy a slave. Probably xocatl was actually developed as a food by mayan peoples farther south, the beans were a hot trade item, before they finally got ground up and drunk as hot chocolate. You can just make cocoa your usual way (which is perhaps by adding hot water to a pre-mixed envelope), and we can't grind the beans, but here's a bit more authentic way

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Steps

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Chop the chocolate and heat it in the water until melted.

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Add honey , salt , and beat the hot chocolate water with a balloon wire whip as you add th warmed milk.

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To make it more frothy and give more food value , you can beat up an egg or two , add hot chocolate to it , then pour it into the chocolate cooking pot and continue to whip ,.

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Serve the hot chocolate in mugs with cinnamon-bark stick stirrers in each.

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Ingredients

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bittersweet chocolate squares, hot water, honey, salt, milk, cinnamon bark