If you want a Mayan themed dinner drink, here is a
good facsimile. They called cocoa “xocoatl”. This
drink, “chocolatl”.
6 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate
6 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups boiling water
ground chili pepper to taste
Grate the unsweetened chocolate into a bowl and cover it with a little of the boiling water. Mash the mixture into a
paste. Add the rest of the water and vanilla and mix. When cool, beat with an electric mixer until frothy. Add the
chili pepper to liven up the drink.
The chocolate will not totally dissolve and will have a grittiness to it.
Since it is not sweet, you probably won’t want to drink
as much of it, so it can be served in a demitasse, like Turkish coffee instead of a coffee cup. It is for adult palates only.
I have tried something quite similar, in the past. Produced a caffeine-type rush, an increase in body temp and killed my appetite for several hours.
It was not ingested for the taste. It takes milk and sugar to
make palatable.