James Silverton <not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not> wrote:

> Steve wrote on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:17:12 +0000 (UTC):

>>> 2 heaping tablespoons of cocoa
>>> 1 heaping tablespoon of sugar-- brown is nice
>>> a pinch of powdered chili
>>> a few grains of salt
>>> about 10 ounces of milk.

>> I wonder if goat milk would be preferable or perhaps
>> even more authentic.

>Almost going back to Aztec times perhaps but that deprived society did
>not have sugar and would have to use llamas :-)

That's my thought; there were goat-like animals native
to the new world, but no domestic bovines, and I doubt
anyone ever successfully milked a plains buffalo cow.

Speaking of buffalo, I recently had a blue buffalo cheese,
something I've never seen before. (That would be water
buffalo, of course.) It is from the Peaks District, and
was excellent.

Steve