[Sca-cooks] Sweet chocolate, Modican chocolate (OOP -- maybe)

[Johnna Holloway]

Honey is what Coe mentions. Sugar came later of course.

Johnnae

Terry Decker wrote:
> As stated "the basic recipe" came from the Aztec and according to the entry 
> for Cacao in The Cambridge World History of Food, the Aztec did mix cacao 
> with honey (as well as with hot water, cold water, maize, ground chili 
> peppers, vanilla, annato, etc., etc. etc.).  The sugar could be a 
> replacement for honey.snipped
>
> Bear
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>> I have a quibble here--- How could the Aztecs have been crushing
>> cacao beans with sugar prior to the Europeans bringing sugarcane
>> to the New World?
>>
>> Johnnae
>>