An 18th-C Who's Who
A propos of nothing, today was the royal wedding of the Brit and the American. Stateside, it is National Devil's Food Cake Day. That's a chocolaty reference and has the added bonus of reminding us of the difference between cacao (the bean) and chocolate (the confected drink turned crafted bar that we enjoy as a treat). Fortuitously for this blog, traditional Devil's Food Cake uses cocoa (the dense powder, invented in the 19th century, made from ground beans with the butter re
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The European Chocolate Pot or Chocolatière "This is the same chocolaty pottes that are mayd in the Indis" Pot and molinillo (molinet, or dowel for whipping chocolate) depicted by Lady Ann Fanshawe in her family cookbook atop a recipe "to dresse Chocolata," from Madrid, 10 August, 1665 (Wellcome Library) "American with his chocolate pot and cup" Chapter image depicting the servingware of New Spain that was imported with chocolate to Europe, in Philippe Dufour'sTraitez nouveaux