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A presentation by Charlotte. CHOCOLATE. What is chocolate? Where does it come from? Chocolate today. CHOCOLATE MAKING. Raw ingredients: Cocoa beans from Central/ South America and Africa Fermentation process Cocoa bean processing: Screening and cleaning Storing until needed
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CHOCOLATE • What is chocolate? • Where does it come from? • Chocolate today
CHOCOLATE MAKING • Raw ingredients: • Cocoa beans from Central/ South America and Africa • Fermentation process • Cocoa bean processing: • Screening and cleaning • Storing until needed • roasting
CHOCOLATE FACTS • The Aztec Emperor Montezuma is said to have drank 50 cups of chocolate each day! • Apparently the Victorians couldn’t pronounce cacao so it was renamed cocoa! • The world’s largest chocolate bar weighed 5,792 kgs ! • Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.
THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE • Cocoa grew wild in Central America • The Mayan and Aztecs would crush the bean and mix it with water to create a drink.
IT CAME TO SPAIN • Aztecs served some to Hernando Cortez, a Spanish explorer in 1519. • 10 years later he brought some back to Spain and served it with sugar and it became very popular. • About 30 years before Christopher Columbus had already introduced chocolate, from the Caribbean, to the Spanish King but it was too bitter.
AND TO EUROPE • Chocolate was quickly introduced to the French Royal family. • It became the most important medicines for doctors, mainly in France and Italy. • The first English chocolate house opened in London in 1657
FINALLY • The first English chocolate factory was opened by Joseph Fry & Sons in 1759 • They still make chocolate today! • Milk chocolate was created in 1875 when a Swiss man changed the original recipe by adding condensed milk made by Henri Nestle.