Title: Cocoa and chocolate, a short history of their production and use
Identifier: cocoachocolatesh00walt (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Walter Baker & Company; Bugbee, James M. (James McKellar), 1837-1913
Subjects: Cocoa; Chocolate; cbk
Publisher: Dorchester, Mass. , Walter Baker & co. , limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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28 COCOA AAV CHOCOLATE. for its heighth, large Leaves and Fruit; the next is the Xochucaual, which is less than the former; and lastly, the least sort, which is call'd Halcacahual. The Fruit of these four sorts of Trees, though differing in shape, yet is all one in power and operation." M^i^^^liyfflaadL^eniSj^in " La Legende du Cacahuatl," makes the foljIP^nng interesting statenieiii in regard to the preparation of choco- late in anycient Mexico : — "orciueinada, id iiis-
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GRINDING ROOM IN ONE OF WALTER BAKER & CO.'S MILLS. n , and Thomas Gage, the conscientious traveler, agree in telling us that /lol chocolate was an invention of the Castilians. The first of these writers, who lived at the end of the sixteenth century, says so positively ; in his time it had been used for only a few years. " Would you know now what chocolate was when the learned Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma • gave his receipt ? I copy it for you here : — « Colmenero de Ledesma (Antonio) Chocolata Inda Opsisculum de qualitate & Natura Cliocolae.T, izmo Xovimberg;t, 1644.

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