the fifth element and/or warm, comfortable drinks

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"In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements:  first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea—by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned."  Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Household Papers and Stories, Ch. 10 (1864)

Pictured: Mate, Coffee, Cocoa and Tea Plant (New World Encyclopedia, 1902)