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Don’t serve your coffee from a chocolate pot! — 10 Comments

  1. A delightful and beautifully illustrated post, Maria Grace. I enjoyed it with my Scottish breakfast tea with a splash of milk and a McVittie’s biscuit.

  2. Excellent article, Maria! When I get around to rebuilding my kitchen you can bet I’ll remember this. I may be able to do without coffee, but tea and chocolate are must haves!

    • After doing all the research, I went on ebay just for fun to look a chocolate pots. It was an exercise in frustration because so many pots were labeled incorrectly! Or worse, a lot were labeled: coffee pot/teapot/chocolate pot! Argh! They are not interchangeable!

      That’ll teach me to dive down a research rabbit hole… LOL

  3. I am always amazed at the amount of research you do and how you still have time to not only write but have a life! Another reason I am glad I live in our day and age…heat water, add hot chocolate powder, stir. Thanks for the history lesson and the photos.

  4. Love having my chocolate each day enjoyed very much your research and photos.Thanks for same. Had been intrigued to see a chocolate pot after your mention of Kitty and Bingley’s love of chocolate in your very delightful book Twelfth Night at Longbourne Think you are a fantastic author Looking forward to more random bits of fascination

  5. Chocolate pots always have a hole on the lid to insert the stirrer. Most have a high short spout ., but not always . Some have the long spout that coffee pots have . The difference is most coffee pots have a sieve at the pot end of the spout , but chocolate pots do not have a sieve ,otherwise the chocolate would be impeded in getting out . Coffee debris however needs to be prevented from getting into a cup .which the sieve achieves . A dual purpose jug would have the opening in the lid for the stirrer and no sieve in the spout for chocolate but still have a long spout for coffee. The coffee grains would then have to be collected in an out of pot strainer ,like a tea strainer .These dual purpose pots do exist . In other words not all chocolate pots have short spouts the important part in a chocolate pot is the hole in the lid for stirring

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