30 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 
sorts of Trees, though differing in shape, yet is all one in power 
and operation.’’ 
M. Ferdinand Denis, in ‘‘La Legende du Cacahuatl,’’ makes the 
following interesting statement in regard to the preparation of choco- 
late in ancient Mexico: — ail ae 
‘“ Torquemada, the learned historian, and Thomas Gage, the con- 
scientious traveler, agree in telling us that hot cipRolate was an in- 
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vention 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! gave his receipt ? 
you here : — 
I copy it for 
‘‘« Take a hundred cacao kernals, two heads of Chili or long pep- 
1 Colmenero de Ledesma (Antonio) Chocolata Inda Opsisculum de qualitate & Natura Chocolatze 
12mo Novimberge, 1644. 
