Hot Chocolate from Chocolate

Ingredients

• Dark semisweet or bittersweet chocolate of your choice, about 1 ounce, broken up into small bits
• 1 C milk
• 1 C boiling water
• 1/4 teaspoon ground new mexico chili (nice chili flavor with a bit of heat)
• 1/8 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
• 1-2 oz cream
• 1 lime leaf*
• 1-2 oz bittersweet chocolate, in small pieces
• pint milk
• 2 long peppercorns**
• 1/4 t cardamom seeds (or 1/4-1/2 t ground cardamom)
• 1/4 t whole mace bits (or 1/4 t freshly ground nutmeg)
• 1/4 inch vietnamese stick cinnamon, broken up into bits