A Commonplace Book

Category: chocolate...

  • Neapolitan chocolate
  • free samples at a chocolate factory
  • dark chocolate, especially organic
  • made from cocoa beans, fermented and roasted and ground to form a paste (chocolate liquor) which can be hardened into bitter baking chocolate - or made into cocoa powder, or mixed with sugar and additional cocoa butter (vegetable fat) to make sweet eating chocolate
  • Fry and Sons making the first sweet chocolate in 1847
  • the addition of concentrated milk to sweet chocolate, making milk chocolate, starting in 1876 (Switzerland)
  • the xocoatl served to Herman Cortes by the Aztecs - which he took back to Spain; a Spanish secret for almost 100 years, sweetened and flavored with cinnamon and vanilla
  • Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. (K. Williams)
  • Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. (T. Capote)
  • a ballotin is the decorative box holding chocolates, sometimes in layers
  • white chocolate not being true chocolate (no cocoa solids) but called that because it contains cocoa butter (sugar, milk, and vanilla extract)

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