Chocolate
Chocolate is the product made by grinding freshly-roasted and winnowed cocoa nibs. It contains 50 – 55% cocoa butter. When freshly made, it is liquid due to the heat generated by the milling process. This bitter chocolate liquor is usually cooled in molds to facilitate later handling. Milk chocolate is made from it by blending the liquor with sugar, milk solids and usually vanilla or some other flavoring such as cassia or cinnamon.
Chocolate
The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. These words live on in Mexican today as ‘choclatl’ for the drink and ‘cacauatl’ for the tree. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices.
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