[Sca-cooks] OOP: 18th c. chocolate

[Phlip]

Actually, Stefan, I have been tripping over references to honey being used
in the Americas, to add to chocolate, by the Native Americans, in period. It
seems that in some areas, although they didn't have the honey bee, there
were honey producing wasps and ants they could get honey from. Very limitted
production, and it didn't travel well, but apparently, it was there. Been
trying to run down more details.

Phlip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <stefan at texas.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:48 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] OOP: 18th c. chocolate


> Brandu commented:
> > well from what I have read ( no I don't have my sources immediately to
hand,
> > sorry ) It was not long before the Spanish started adding sugar and
cinnamon
> > to the chocolate instead of the hot pepper. I think that this was a
popular
> > drink with the Spanish court by the 1530's. lat me see what I can find
for
> > references, and I'll report.
>
> This list has discussed the origins of chocolate and chocolate items
> on numerous occasions. I seem to remember that the more folks talked
> about this the futher back the addition of sugar to chocolate was
> found.
>
> For much of the best of this discussion, see this file in the
>
> FOOD-SWEETS section of the Florilegium:
>
> chocolate-msg     (65K)  6/25/02    History and description of early
chocolate.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/chocolate-msg.html
>
>
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>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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