2 g COCOA AXD CHOCOLATE. 



for its heighth, large Leaves and Fruit; the next is the Xochucaual, 

 which is less than the former; and lastly, the least sort, which is call'd 

 Halcacahual. The Fruit of these four sorts of Trees, though differing 

 in shape, yet is all one in power and operation." 



M Ferdinand Denis, in "La Legencle du Cacahuatl," makes the 

 ii^fll ;Vi to the preparation of choco- 



cient Mexico : 



ouemada. 



GRINDING ROOM IN ONE OF WALTER 

 BAKER & CO.'S MILLS. 



IWa n , and 

 Thomas Gage, 

 the conscientious traveler, 

 agree in telling us that hot 

 chocolate was an invention 

 of the Castilians. The first of these writers, who lived at the end 

 of the sixteenth century, says so positively ; in his time it had been 

 used for only a few years. 



" Would you know now what chocolate was when the learned 

 Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma l gave his receipt ? I copy it for you 

 here : 



1 Colmenero de Ledesma (Antonio) Chocolata Inda Opsisculum de qualitate & Natura Chocolaea-, 12010 

 Nmimbergre, 1644. 



