{"id":87724,"date":"2024-06-03T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87724"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:34:06","slug":"18th-century-spiced-hot-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/18th-century-spiced-hot-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Century Spiced Hot Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRMCgE39e3E?si=Y3bCEiNyLkefS2K9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tasting History with Max Miller<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Feb 23, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Rich, thick, dark hot chocolate spiced with cinnamon and cardamom<\/p>\n<p><em>City\/Region<\/em>: England<br \/>\n<em>Time Period<\/em>: 1747<\/p>\n<p>Up until the 19th century, the most popular way to partake of chocolate was to drink it. Aztecs drank a very bitter chocolate, and when Europeans brought it back home, they paved the way for one of the most perfect of food pairings: chocolate and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>This hot chocolate is fairly dark, so feel free to add more sugar if that&#8217;s to your taste. It&#8217;s super rich and much thicker than most hot chocolates you&#8217;d get today, so you may only want to make a small amount of the drink and save the rest of the chocolate for later. The spices jump out at you, and even though mine still had a bit of grittiness from the cocoa nibs (it&#8217;s basically impossible to get it completely smooth at home), it was really, really good.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Another way to make chocolate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAKE six pounds of the best Spanish nuts, when parch&#8217;d and clean&#8217;d from the hulls; take three pounds of sugar, two ounces of the best cinnamon, beaten and sifted very fine; to every two pounds of nuts put in three good vanelas, or more or less as you please; to every pound of nuts half a dram of cardamum seeds, very finely beaten and sierced.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 <strong>The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy<\/strong> by Hannah Glasse, 1747<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong>:<br \/>\n2\/3 cup (135 g) sugar<br \/>\n2 teaspoons ground cinnamon<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon ground cardamom<br \/>\n1\/2 vanilla bean or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, more or less to your taste<br \/>\nScant 1 cup (200 g) cocoa nibs<br \/>\n2 cups milk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whisk together the sugar and spices to combine. Whisk in the cocoa nibs.<\/li>\n<li>Put everything in a blender or food processor and blend it up. This will crush the cocoa nibs and melt the cocoa butter in them, eventually turning it into a liquid or paste. Give your blender breaks if it starts to overheat. It took me a total of 15 to 20 minutes of blending. You could do this in a mortar and pestle, but it would take forever. I ground just a small amount of cocoa nibs for about 20 minutes and it wasn&#8217;t anywhere near where it needed to be.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not using it right away, pour it into a bowl or other container and let it sit until it hardens.<\/li>\n<li>Take the hardened chocolate out of the container. Chop the desired amount into small pieces. How much you use will depend on how chocolatey you want your hot chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Heat the milk in a pot until it simmers. Add the chopped chocolate and whisk vigorously. You want to mix in the chocolate, but also create some froth. You could also use a <em>molinillo<\/em> to create froth if you have one.<\/li>\n<li>Pour the hot chocolate into fancy cups (small ones are best because it&#8217;s so rich), and serve it forth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasting History with Max Miller Published Feb 23, 2024 Rich, thick, dark hot chocolate spiced with cinnamon and cardamom City\/Region: England Time Period: 1747 Up until the 19th century, the most popular way to partake of chocolate was to drink it. 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