Choice Recipes by Miss Maria Parloa SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR WALTER BAKER & Co. LTD. PLAIN CHOCOLATE For six people, use one quart of milk, two ounces of Walter Baker & Co.’s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, one tablespoonful of cornstarch, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of hot water. M ...

113 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

Cacao lends itself very readily to such preliminary treatment. In a first-class article, the beans should be of the highest excellence; they should be carefully grown on the plantation and there prepared with great skill, arriving in the factory in good condition. In the factory they should simply r ...

121 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

“Before chocolate was known in Europe, good old wine was called the milk of old men; but this title is now applied with greater reason to chocolate, since its use has become so common that it has been perceived that chocolate is, with respect to them, what milk is to infants. In reality, if one exam ...

129 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

“I could produce several instances,” he says, “in favor of this excellent nourishment; but I shall content myself with two only, equally certain and decisive, in proof of its goodness. The first is an experiment of chocolate’s being taken for the only nourishment—made by a surgeon’s wife of Martinic ...

136 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

In corroboration of M. Brillat-Savarin’s statement as to the value of chocolate as an aid to digestion, we may quote from one of Mme. de Sévigné’s letters to her daughter: “I took chocolate night before last to digest my dinner, in order to have a good supper. I took some yesterday for nourishment, ...

142 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

“Some persons complain of being unable to digest chocolate; others, on the contrary, pretend that it has not sufficient nourishment, and that the effect disappears too soon. It is probable that the former have only themselves to blame, and that the chocolate which they use is of bad quality or badly ...

150 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

“The Spanish ladies of the New World, it is said, carried their love for chocolate to such a degree that, not content with partaking of it several times a day, they had it sometimes carried after them to church. This favoring of the senses often drew upon them the censures of the bishop; but the Rev ...

157 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

M. Brillat-Savarin, in his entertaining and valuable work, _Physiologie du Got_, says: “Chocolate came over the mountains [from Spain to France] with Anne of Austria, daughter of Philip III and queen of Louis XIII. The Spanish monks also spread the knowledge of it by the presents they made to their ...

163 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

Although there was a marked increase in the consumption of tea and coffee during the same period, the ratio of increase fell far below that of cocoa. It is evident that the coming American is going to be less of a tea and coffee drinker, and more of a cocoa and chocolate drinker. This is the natural ...

178 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken

No better evidence could be offered of the great advance which has been made in recent years in the knowledge of dietetics than the remarkable increase in the consumption of cocoa and chocolate in this country. The amount retained for home consumption in 1860 was only 1,181,054 pounds—about 3-5 of a ...

185 days ago · Chocolate Papers · chocolate-papers.com by ndraken