Two chocolate drinking Mixtec Kings
from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
The Aztecs linked cocoa with Xochiquetzal, the goddess of
fertility. They drank a
chocolate drink, xocoatl, often flavored with vanilla, Chile pepper and
allspice. The drink
would go against fatigue, a result of caffeine which is a component of the
cocoa. A Spanish Jesuit
missionary, Jose de Acosta, who at the end of the 16th century lived in Peru and
Mexico, wrote all about that effect. The beverage was used, among other things, to the Court of
Emperor Montezuma.
In 1585 chocolate for the first time on a commercial scale of
Veracruz transported to Seville. Chocolate was then drunk only, where the Europeans added sugar
to him and the chili pepper. In 1615 was the chocolate drink at audiënties official with the
French King introduced, until it was abolished by use cuts again. In the 17th century was chocolate a
luxury product that was mainly used by the nobility.
The Spaniards who lived in America discovered that they could
bake delicious chocolate cookies by adding sugar to the cocoa paste.
They could the
preparation of chocolate almost a century long secrecy.
The first chocolate factory arose in 1728 in England.
In 1760 there were
factories in Germany and France. In 1819 was the first Swiss chocolate manufactured.
Blooker began In 1813
with the production of cocoa and chocolate in Netherlands, and in 1828 Casparus
van Houten SR. did an important invention for easy the fat of the cocoa mass
could be separated. This technique got worldwide following. The end of the 18th century began to drop in
price, also chocolate so that ordinary people could pay.
The first edible chocolate would be created by the British in
1847 Quaker Joseph Fry. The Quaker-Cadbury and Rowntree were two centuries families
Fry, in the chocolate industry is active.
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