[Sca-cooks] vanilla beans

[johnna holloway]

One more source on vanilla---
There are recipes for chocolate that
use vanilla published in France by M
St. Disdier in 1692.
See Sophie and Michael Coe's The True
History of Chocolate. pp.162-164.

She mentions Hernandez's account of an
Aztec recipe for chocolate that inflames the
venereal appetites on pages 90-94. It also
includes mention of vanilla.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Johnna Holloway