CHOCOLATE, (Encycl.) This, according to Linnæus, is more salutary than either tea or coffee. There are three methods of preparing it, as practised by the Indians, the Spaniards, and others. The Indians, to one pound of the roasted nuts put half a pound of sugar dissolved in rose-water, and half a pound of flour of maize or Indian corn. The Spaniards, to six pounds of the nut add three and an half of sugar, seven pods of vanillas, one pound and an half of Indian corn, half a pound of cinnamon, six cloves; one drachm of capsicum, and whatsoever is thought requisite of the roucou nut to improve the colour, together with ambergreise or musk to give an agreeable scent. In the other and more common way, to seventeen pounds of nuts are added ten pounds of sugar, twenty-eight pods of vanillas, one drachm of ambergreise, and six ounces of cinnamon.