Mexicans_
season it with _Pimento_; but the Nuns and _Spanish_ Ladies, instead of
_Pimento_, use Sugar, Cinnamon, perfumed Waters of Amber, Musk, _&c._ In
these Parts, they make the same Use of _Atolla_, as of the best Rice in
the _Levant_.

REMARK XI.

One ought to chuse the smallest Cinnamon, the highest coloured, and of
the most biting Taste, as well as sweet and spicy, because a great Part
is full of Pieces, from whence they have drawn the Essence, and has
neither any Colour nor Taste, but that of the Wood. To help and amend
both, there needs only a Clove to be ground in the Mortar, with an Ounce
of Cinnamon. This Spice is best that comes from the _East-Indies_, it
has nothing of Acrid in it, and contains an oleous Volatile, which
agrees very well with that of Chocolate. Cinnamon also has always kept
its Place in all the Compositions of Chocolate.

FOOTNOTES:

[a] _New Voyage round the World_, Tom. 1. Chap. 10.

[89] Thomas Gage, _Tom. 1. Part 2. Pag. 142_.

MEDICINES
In whose Composition
OIL or BUTTER
OF
_CHOCOLATE_
Is made use of.

_The Wonderful Plaister for the Curing of all sorts of Ulcers._

Take _Oil-Olive_ a Pound, _Venetian Ceruss_, in Powder, half a Pound.

Put them in a Copper Pan, or a glazed Earthen one, upon a clear moderate
Fire, stirring them continually with a wooden _Spatula_ till the
Mixture is become black, and almost of the Consistence of a Plaister,
(which you may know by letting fall two or three Drops upon a Pewter
Plate; for if they grow cold immediately, and do not stick to the
Fingers, when touch'd, it is done enough.) Then must be added,

Of _Bees-Wax cut in little Bits_, an Ounce and a half.

_Oil or Butter of Chocolate_, an Ounce.

_Balsam Capivi_, an Ounce and a half.

When they are all melted and mixed together, the Pan must be taken off
the Fire; and stirring constantly with the _Spatula_, you must add the
following Ingredients, reduced into a fine Powder separately, and then
well mixed together.

_Lapis Calaminaris_, heated in the Fire, and then quenched in
Lime-Water, and ground upon a Porphyry, one Ounce.

_Myrrh in Drops_, }
_Aloes Succotrine_, } of each two
_Round Birthwort_, } Drams.
_Florentine Orris_, }

_Camphire_, a Dram.

When they are all well incorporated together, they must cool a little,
and then be poured upon a Marble to be made into Rolls, after the
ordinary Ma