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CHOCOLATE Drink RECIPES

AZTEC INSPIRED CHOCOLATE DRINK

17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

Recipe Source:  The writings of two 16th century Spaniards in Mexico: Franciscan Friar, Bernardino de Sahagún and Francisco Hernandez, royal physician and a naturalist. 

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17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

17th CENTURY SPANISH HOT CHOCOLATE

Recipe Source: The 17th century writings of Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, an Andalusian physician.

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17TH CENTURY ENGLISH HOT CHOCOLATE

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

17TH CENTURY ENGLISH HOT CHOCOLATE

Recipe Source: The c.1674 manuscript receipt book of Penelope Jephson in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPES THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY SPANISH WAY

Recipe Source: Santiago de Valverde Turices, Un Discurso del Chocolat, 1624.

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CHOCOLATE WINE

CHOCOLATE BY HANNAH GLASSE

CHOCOLATE BY HANNAH GLASSE

Recipe Source: John Shirley, The Accomplshed Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities, or the Ingenious Gentlewoman’s and Servant Maid’s Delightful Companion (London 1690)

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CHOCOLATE BY HANNAH GLASSE

CHOCOLATE BY HANNAH GLASSE

CHOCOLATE BY HANNAH GLASSE

Recipe Source: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, a new edition with modern improvements (London, 1805)

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CHOCOLATE Biscuit (Cookie) RECIPES

CHOCOLATE PUFFS

BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

Recipe Source: Mrs. Mary Eales (Confectioner to her late Majesty Queen Anne), 

Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts. London: J. Brindley, 1733.

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BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

Recipe Source: English translation of Menon’s French cookbook by a clerk of the kitchen in noble families in this Kingdom (UK), Les Soupers de la Cour, ou, La Cuisine Reformess; The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (London publication, 1767)

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CHOCOLATE BISCUITS

BISCUITS DE CHOCOLAT (Recipe #1 by Menon)

Recipe Source: B. Clermont, The Professed Cook, or the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry & Confectionary Made Plain and Easy, 1812

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ORIGINAL TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

ORIGINAL TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Recipe Source: Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes, 1941

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CHOCOLATE THINS

ORIGINAL TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

CHOCOLATE THINS

Recipe Source: Maryland's Way, The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book (Annapolis, MD, 1963)

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CHOCOLATE Cake and Tart RECIPES

CHOCOLATE TART

Recipe Source: Patrick Lamb, Esq., Royal Cookery or The Compleat Court Cook, London, 1731.

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ELIZA LESLIE'S CHOCOLATE CAKE

Recipe Source: Eliza Leslie, 

The Lady’s Receipt Book, 1847


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BANGOR BROWNIES

BANGOR BROWNIES

Bangor Brownies

Recipe Source: Lowney's Cook Book, Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard, 1912

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CHOCOLATE Confection RECIPES

AN EARLY FRUIT & NUT CONFECTION

Recipe Source: Thomas Hurtado (a Spanish Catholic priest), Chocolate y Tabaco Ayuno Eclesiastico y Natural, 1645.

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CHOCOLATE ALMONDS

Recipe Source: Eliza Smith, The Compleat Housewife (printed in 1742 by William Parks, Williamsburg, VA)

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CHOCOLATE BALLS

CHOCOLATE BALLS

Recipe source: :The United States Regional Cook Book, edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, 1947.

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CHOCOLATE Creams, Puddings, and Gelatin RECIPES

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

Recipe Source: Lowney's Cook Book, Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard, 1912

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CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

CHOCOLATE CHARLOTTE RUSSE

Recipe Source: The 19th century manuscript receipt (recipe) book of Ann Maria Morris, Baltimore located at the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical Society

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MRS. DuPONT'S CHOCOLATE PUDDING

Recipe Source: The 19th century manuscript receipt (recipe) book of Ann Maria Morris, Baltimore located at the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical Society

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CHOCOLATE JELLY

Recipe Source: Lettice Bryan, The Kentucky Housewife, 1839

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UNWRAPPING COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE CHOCOLATE

Outlook by the Bay Article (Winter, 2020), p.5

LINK TO ARTICLE

Popular Anthropology, 2013, Vol.4, No.1

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