[Sca-cooks] On-line 1599 English-Spanish Dictionary

[emilio szabo]

Thanks a lot for pointing to the dictionary.


On the same site there is a description of a food project.


http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/proj/food/pro-food.html


And there are electronic texts, one of them is the second letter of Cortés (1520), where cacao is mentioned:


http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e015.html


"Y puso en ello tanta deligencia que dende en dos meses que yo se lo
dije estaban sembradas sesenta hanegas de maíz y diez de frisoles y dos
mill pies de cacap, que es una fruta como almendras que ellos venden
molida y tiénenla en tanto que se trata por moneda ...". 


cacap = cacao, see:


http://books.google.de/books?id=oc6umVJFQpYC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=%22dos+mill+pies+de+cacap%22&source=bl&ots=qs5oJcwm8Q&sig=tnNJUaEo9T2QYGwfZv2xxWWyk4w&hl=de&ei=Hnu5Sf3MOIOB_gbYx4iIBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA29,M1


BTW: the Norton article, someone mentioned several posts ago in the chocolate thread, says that chocolate was used in the Iberia in the 1590ies.


E.