SC - Re: turnips

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

david friedman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:24:13, -0500 Annejke at prodigy.com (MS MARTHA L
> WALLENHORST) writes:
> 
> >If someone else hasn't said it already (I have been gone for a week
> >for my sons graduation) I will, hot Chocolate is period in Europe.
> >It is late period but there is mention of it in Spain and the
> >Netherlands.
> 
> It depends what you mean by "hot chocolate." Certainly there was a drink
> made out of cocoa beans being drunk in Spain in the sixteenth century. But
> the descriptions I have seen suggest that no modern person who tasted it
> would describe it as hot chocolate, and no sixteenth century Spaniard would
> have ever drunk anything that tasted very much like what we call hot
> chocolate.
> 
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/

I have a friend who has documented a non-sweet chocolate sauce used in period 
in Spain.  I'll call her and get her documentation and post it when I can.

Linneah