[Sca-cooks] Article on chocolate, 1631

[Georgia Foster]

aeduin provided:   'Author: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma' as Translated by 
James Wadsworth

which states in part:  ...Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and 
Moderate use whereof ...


... Conception is Caused ...


SEE

All this time I have been telling people that it was something in the 
water!!!   It WAS!!

It was Chocolate in the water


Sorry ... had to be said


Malkin
(mom of four)

Otherhill
Artemisia








Jo (Georgia L.) Foster
jo_foster81 at hotmail.com

Never knock on death's door........ Ring the doorbell and run. He hates 
that.





From: aeduin <aeduin at adelphia.net>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Article on chocolate, 1631
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:01:24 -0700

Project Gutenberg has just released an article on chocolate written in Spain 
in 1631 and translated to English in 1651.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21271/21271-h/21271-h.htm  for the 
uncompressed HTML page

or

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21271 for the main page of the text

Health is preserved,
Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of
the Guts; vulgarly called
The New Disease
; Fluxes,
Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other
desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the
Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued.


Author: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

Translator: James Wadsworth


aeduin




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