if you
cannot have those things, which come from the _Indies_, you may make
it with the rest.

[G] Chiles

_The way of Compounding._

The _Cacao_, and the other Ingredients must be beaten in a Morter of
Stone, or ground upon a broad stone, which the _Indians_ call
_Metate_, and is onely made for that use: But the first thing that is
to be done, is to dry the Ingredients, all except the _Achiote_; with
care that they may be beaten to powder, keeping them still in
stirring, that they be not burnt, or become black; and if they be
over-dried, they will be bitter, and lose their vertue. The Cinamon,
and the long red Pepper are to be first beaten, with the Annis-seed;
and then beate the _Cacao_, which you must beate by a little and
little, till it be all powdred; and sometimes turne it round in the
beating, that it may mixe the better: And every one of these
Ingredients, must be beaten by it selfe; and then put all the
Ingredients into the Vessell, where the _Cacao_ is; which you must
stirre together with a spoone; and then take out that Paste, and put
it into the Morter, under which you must lay a little fire, after the
_Confection_ is made. But you must be very carefull, not to put more
fire, than will warme it, that the unctuous part doe not dry away. And
you must also take care, to put in the _Achiote_ in the beating; that
it may the better take the colour. You must Searse all the
Ingredients, but onely the _Cacao_; and if you take the shell from the
_Cacao_, it is the better; and when you shall find it to be well
beaten, & incorporated (which you shall know by the shortness of it)
then with a spoone take up some of the Paste, which will be almost
liquid; and so either make it into Tablets; or put it into Boxes; and
when it is cold it will be hard. To make the Tablets you must put a
spoonfull of the Paste upon a piece of paper, the _Indians_ put it
upon the leaf of a _Planten-tree_; where, being put into the shade, it
growes hard; and then bowing the paper, the Tablet falls off, by
reason of the fatnesse of the paste. But if you put it into any thing
of earth, or wood, it sticks fast, and will not come off, but with
scraping, or breaking. In the _Indies_ they take it two severall
waies: the one, being the common way, is to take it hot, with
_Atolle_, which was the Drinke of Ancient _Indians_ (the _Indians_
call _Atolle_ pappe, made of the flower of _Maiz_, and so they mingle
it with the _Chocolate_, and that th