Chocolate Drops

Instructions

1. Throw from two to four ounces of the best quality of cake-chocolate, broken small, into a well heated metal mortar.
2. Pound it with a warm pestle until it resembles a smooth paste or very thick batter.
3. Then add an equal weight of sugar in the finest powder, and beat them until they are thoroughly blended.
4. Roll the mixture into small balls, lay them upon sheets of writing paper or upon clean dishes, and take them off when they are nearly cold.
5. The tops may be covered with white nonpareil comfits, or the drops may be shaken in a paper containing some of these and entirely encrusted with them; but recollect that the comfits will not adhere to the drops after they become hard.
6. More or less sugar can be worked into the chocolate according to the taste.
7. A Wedgwood mortar may be used for it when no other is at hand, but one of bell-metal will answer the purpose better.