New Products For The Chocolaterie Brouwer
Our designer Melody E Koert-Saul has desinged some products specialy for Chocolatrie Brouwer.
We also include a little history of Choclate.
The obroma cacao, native to Mexico, Central and South America, has been cultivated for at least 3 millennia within that territory. Cocoa mass was used in the beginning in Mesoamerica both as a potion and as an ingredient in foods.
Chocolate has been used like a beverage for nearly all of its history. The most basic evidence of using chocolate dates back before the Olmec. In November 2007, archaeologists reported finding proof of the oldest identified cultivation and use of cacao at a location in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC. The residues found and the kind of vessel they were found in point to that the initial use of cacao was not merely as a drink, but the white pulp around the cacao beans was probable used as a source of fermentable sugars for an alcoholic beverage. The Maya civilization grew cacao trees in their backyard,and used the cacao seeds it produced to make a frothy, bitter beverage.Documents in Maya hieroglyphs stated that chocolate was used for ceremonial reasons, in addition to day-to-day living. The chocolate remains found in an early prehistoric Maya pot in Rio Azul, Guatemala, suggests that Maya have been drinking chocolate around 400 AD. In the New World, chocolate was consumed in a bitter, spicy beverage called xocoatl, and was often flavored with vanilla, chili pepper, and achiote (known today as annatto). Xocoatl was supposed to fight exhaustion, a perception that is almost certainly attributable to the theobromine content. Chocolate was also an valuable luxury good throughout pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and cacao beans were often used as currency. For example, the Aztecs used a method in which one turkey cost one 100 cacao beans and one fresh avocado was worth 3 beans. South American and European cultures have used cocoa to cure diarrhea for hundreds of years. All of the areas that were subjugated by the Aztecs that grew cacao beans were ordered to pay them as a tax, or as the Aztecs called it, a “tribute”.
Until the 16th century, no European had ever heard of the well-liked beverage from the Central and South American peoples.[16] It was not until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs that chocolate could be imported to Europe. In Spain it rapidly became a court preferred. In a century it had spread and become popular all the way through the European region To keep up with the high request for this new beverage, Spanish armies started enslaving Mesoamericans to manufacture cacao. Even with cacao harvesting becoming a regular business, only royals and the well-connected could afford to drink this costly import. Before long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help run them. The state of affairs was different in England. Put simply, anyone with money could buy it. The first chocolate house opened in London in 1657. In 1689, noted physician and collector Hans Sloane developed a milk chocolate drink in Jamaica which was initially used by apothecaries, but later sold to the Cadbury brothers in 1897.
Chocolate in its solid form was invented in 1847. Joseph Fry & Son found a means to combine some of the cocoa butter back into the dutched chocolate, and added sugar, producing a paste that could be moulded. The result was the original modern chocolate bar.
For hundreds of years, the chocolate making procedure remained unchanged. When the public saw the Industrial Revolution turn up, many modifications occurred that brought about the food today in its contemporary form. A Dutch family’s (van Houten) pioneer technology made mass production of shiny, delicious chocolate bars and related products possible. In the 1700s, mechanical mills were being made that squeezed out cocoa butter, which in turn helped to make solid, robust chocolate. But, it was not until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution that these mills were being put to bigger use. Not long following the revolution cooled down, companies began advertising this new invention to sell many of the chocolate treats we observe today. When new machines were produced, people began experiencing and consuming chocolate worldwide.
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