Take a Quart of Milk, Chocolate without Sugar four ounces, fine Sugar as much fine Flour, or Starch, half a quarter of an Ounce, a little Salt: mix them, dissolve them, and boil them as before.

Source: Nott, John, The Cook’s and Confectioner’s Dictionary, Article 129, 1726, reproduced by Lawrence Rivington, Inc., London, 1980