# Chocolate drinks without milk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-drinks-without-milk/192890 "2003-08-04T14:02:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-drinks-without-milk/192890/1 "2003-08-04T14:02:19Z")
Check out almost any history of chocolate, and you will learn that the original hot chocolate drink was unsweetened, with the addition of sugar and, later in history, milk being European innovations. Does anyone know where I can find a recipe (using modern ingredients, natch, as I don’t know how easy it is to lay hands on cocoa beans) that simulates these earlier beverages? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-drinks-without-milk/192890/2 "2003-08-04T15:11:50Z")
Ah, so _that’s_ what it was about. We wondered…but we didn’t let it stop us from babbling. Well, there’s an Aztec hot chocolate recipe [here](http://www.chocolatemonthclub.com/recipes/chocolate-drinks.htm#1). I think I like the Spanish modification at the end of the recipe–it sounds like it would be rather nasty without some kind of sweetener. I might go with honey instead of refined sugar, though, and leave the pepper in it. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-drinks-without-milk/192890/3 "2003-08-05T00:29:08Z")
Fan-tabulous, **Balance**. Precisely what I was looking for.