At the beginning of Chocolate
Chocolate seems to derive from MayaCivilization. The record before using cacao was found in the Mayan civilization. The fact was revealed by residues of chocolate found in a pot of Maya. The Maya believe that drinking chocolate 2,600 years ago. Choc. Xochiquetzal was also the Mayan goddess of fertility is associated.
Chocolate is believed to be consumed in a bitter and spicy drink called xocoatl spicy, often with vanilla, chili pepper and achiote(Annatto) in North and South America. The "xocoatl" It was felt that one Energizer, which has been used to combat fatigue. This type of food was an important luxury good in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and cocoa beans were often used as currency. The cocoa beans were commonly used in many foods and beverages. Christopher Columbus took some cocoa beans to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. However, the cocoa beans and large, in Europe by Hernán Cortés, the first Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca was introducedWho is responsible for leading the military expedition that initiated the Spanish conquest of Mexico known. Shock for the first time in trade delivered Europe from Veracruz to Seville in 1585
In previous times, served as the chocolate drink to overcome, but the Europeans added sugar and milk until its natural bitterness. Also started with the Mexican indigenous spice, vanilla, instead of the chili. This has resulted in better choc chocolate or modern. In the 17th Century, with shocktaste better come to be used as a luxury item among the European nobility.
The first form of shock was solid in Turin at the end of the 18th Century Dorette invention. FL Cailles opened the first Swiss chocolate factory in 1819. Pierre Paul Caffarel sell these chocolate in large quantities from the year 1826 the Dutch Conrad J. van Houten patented in 1828 a method for extracting fat from cocoa beans and cocoa powder and cocoa butter do. The Dutch processConsideration of chocolate with alkali to remove the bitter taste, was also developed by Van Houten, Dutch process made it possible to form the modern chocolate bar.
The first version of this wonderful edible food is believed to have been made by the Englishman Joseph Fry in 1847 will be. Brothers-produced Cadbury chocolate to eat "in 1849. They say that Daniel was Peter, a Swiss maker light, the father-in-law business of chocolate, and in 1867 beganExperiments with milk as an ingredient. Presented its new product, the version of the milk market in 1875. A baby food manufacturer named Henri Nestlé has helped him to remove water from milk, to prevent mold. The process of conching, the heater in progress, and correcting solid chocolate finely, to ensure that the liquid uniformly mixed, was invented by Rodolphe Lindt.
Today, chocolate is a common ingredient in many kinds of desserts, assuch as chocolate, candy, ice cream, cakes, pies, tarts, mousses and other desserts. And 'one of the most popular variety in the world.
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