Crossword-Solution: BROMA 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But to a tourist taking like chance in American country-fare, what is the prospect? What is the coffee? what the tea? and the meat? and above all, the butter? In writing on cooking, the main topics should be first, bread; second, butter; third, meat; fourth, vegetables; and fifth, tea--by which last is meant, generally, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in tea-cups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not.

Estos chales á 4 chelines y estos listados de algodón á 5 peniques la yarda son de balde, no lo decimos de broma.

The _cocoa_ or _broma_ should be mixed smoothly with a little boiling water, and added to that in the saucepan; one quart of either requiring a pint each of milk and water, about three tablespoonfuls of cocoa, and a small cup of sugar.

Por donde iba, hizo la suerte Que se hubiese el jabalí 15 Escondido, por si así Se libraba de la muerte; Empero, sintiendo luego Que por ahí andaba gente, Tuvo por cosa prudente 20 Tomar las de Villadiego; La vieja entonces al ver Que escapaba por la loma, ¡Sus! dijo por pura broma, Y la perra echó á correr.

Theo-broma is Greek for "Food of the Gods." Why Linnaeus paid this extraordinary compliment to cacao is obscure, but it has been suggested that he was inordinately fond of the beverage prepared from it--the cup which both cheers and satisfies.