The natural history of chocolate : being a distinct and particular account of the cocoa-tree, its growth and culture, and the preparation, excellent properties, and medicinal vertues of its fruit. Wherein the errors of those who have wrote upon this subject are discover'd; the best way of making chocolate is explain'd; and several uncommon medicines drawn from it, are communicated / [D. Quélus] ; Translated from the last edition of the French, by R. Brookes.
- Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus
- Date:
- 1775
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The natural history of chocolate : being a distinct and particular account of the cocoa-tree, its growth and culture, and the preparation, excellent properties, and medicinal vertues of its fruit. Wherein the errors of those who have wrote upon this subject are discover'd; the best way of making chocolate is explain'd; and several uncommon medicines drawn from it, are communicated / [D. Quélus] ; Translated from the last edition of the French, by R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and heat the Body, prudent People take care to avoid this Excefs, and will not ufe any Chocolate whofe Compofition they are ignorant of. Chocolate made after this manner, has this Advantage, that when a Perfon is obliged to go from Home, and cannot ftay to have it made into Drink, he may eat an Ounce of it, and drinking after it, leave the Stomach to diffolve it. In the Antilloes they make Cakes of the Kernels only, without any Addition, as I have taught at the End of the firft Part of this Treatife ; and when they would make Chocolate of them, they proceed in the following Manner. The Method of making Chocolate after the Manner of the French ] (lands in America. r HEY fcrape off with a Knife from 1 thefe Cakes aforefaid (t), what Quantity they pleafe, (for Inftance, four large Spoonfuls, which weigh about an Ounce) and mix with it two or three Pinches of powder’d Cinnamon finely fearced, and about two large Spoonfuls of Sugar in Powder (2). (1) Or rather grate it with a flat Grater, when the Cakes are fo dry that they will not he fo eafly /craped with a Knife. (2) Becaufe if it was in a Lump, it would weigh mere than double the Quantity of /craped Chocolate,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30540367_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)