[Sca-cooks] Re: chocolate

[dale elliott]

There was a papal bull issued banning its use in nunneries, I do not remember the date.  but the sisters were making chocolate in every form and neglecting all other duties.

I will see if I can find the reference to the Papal Bull.  I have it somewhere.
Maybe in "Res Gestae", have to open my 70's archive.

joy
Radei

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lonnie D. Harvel" <ldh at ece.gatech.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: chocolate
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:04:29 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> 
> > Supposedly
> > there are church records condemning the local Christains who went to
> > "the wrong
> > side of the tracks" for chocolat. The church looked at chocolat like our
> > government looks at pot.
> 
> I think what you are looking for is the restrictive act issued by the
> Society of Jesus in 1650 which barred the use of a chocolate drink by
> Jesuits during periods of fasting. Since the sweetened chocolate drink has
> some nutritional value, its extensive use by the monks was seen as a form
> of "cheating".
> 
> I don't know of any other official sanction against chocolate by the
> Church of the period. There were individual clerics who preached against
> its use. Some even went as far to claim that the invigorating effect was a
> result of demonic influences.  This  was never (to my knowledge), however,
> a Church doctrine.
> 
> Pax,
> Aoghann
> 
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