SC - Index to Uncle Eli's Haggadah

[Sharon R. Saroff]

Phlip asked:
> 
> Anybody have a recipe for the period chocolate mixed with hot peppers, which
> was the original drink sent to Europe? Redactions and originals with docs
> would be preferred......

The following are from the chocolate-msg file in the FOOD-SWEETS
section of my Florilegium. There is more about these particular reports
and books in the file. There is also a source given for cocoa beans. Also
some reports on the preparing of chocolate but without the recipe that
might be useful. these two recipes may be the same one mentioned earlier
but I don't know.

Stefan

> The following is a quote from _Food_in_History_ by Reay Tannahill (New York: 
> Stein and Day, 1973), pp 287-289:
> 
>     "In Spain by 1631, the preparation of a cup of chocoalate had
>   become a major operation. 'For every hundred cocoa beans, mix 
>   two pods of chili or Mexican pepper...or, failing those, two
>   Indian peppercorns, a handful of aniseed, two of those flowers
>   known as "little ears" or *vinacaxtlides,* and two of those known
>   as *mesasuchil*...Instead of the latter one could include the 
>   powder of the six roses of Alexaundria [an apothecaries' formula]...
>   a little pod of logwood [a dye], two drachmas of cinnamon, a
>   dozen almonds and as many hazelnuts, half a pound of sugar, and
>   enought arnotto [a dye] to give color to the whole.'"
> 
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> I here is the recipe I have from 1631 published by Antonio Colmenero who
> had
> taken it from a Marchena physician;
> 
>             700 cocoa beans
>             1 1/2 lbs. white sugar
>             2 ozs of cinnamon
>             14 long red peppers
>             1/2 oz of clove
>             3 cods of logwood or Campeche tree - similar to fennell
>                  or instead use
>             the weight of 2 reals (or a shilling) of anniseeds
>             as much Achiote to give it the color of hazelnut

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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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