After fermentation, the waste hulls are removed, often being sold as mulch for the garden. Next the beans are ground into a fine powder, as Becky Curland demonstrates to the left. In Costa Rica, they still often grind the beans with the same kinds of stones as the Aztecs and Mayans did those many years ago. Sugar is added, the mixture is stirred vigorously with special tools until it becomes foamy, and there we have hot chocolate. This is the form in which chocolate became famous, becoming important especially in long sea voyages. It was easy to store as a dry powder, and it was certainly easy enough to boil water. It's strange to think of it now, but hot chocolate was at first made with just water by the Mayans and the Aztecs, but more recently milk has become a more popular alternative. Surprisingly the first record of milk being used to make hot chocolate was 1727.
Many years later, people found a way to more easily transport chocolate-- the chocolate bar! These are made in a similar way to the cocoa powder, but it is usually ground more finely. Cocoa butter is removed to make a dry powder. This dry powder is mixed with sugar and part of the cocoa butter at high temperature for up to 24 hours in a process called conching. The product must then be cooled slowly to maintain the integrity of the bar; that is preventing the cocoa butter from leaching out of the mixture. While still warm, the chocolate is poured into molds (the metal ones not the fungal kind) and allowed to cool into its final shape.
After fermentation, the waste hulls are removed, often being sold as mulch for the garden. Next the beans are ground into a fine powder, as Becky Curland demonstrates to the left. In Costa Rica, they still often grind the beans with the same kinds of stones as the Aztecs and Mayans did those many years ago. Sugar is added, the mixture is stirred vigorously with special tools until it becomes foamy, and there we have hot chocolate. This is the form in which chocolate became famous, becoming important especially in long sea voyages. It was easy to store as a dry powder, and it was certainly easy enough to boil water. It's strange to think of it now, but hot chocolate was at first made with just water by the Mayans and the Aztecs, but more recently milk has become a more popular alternative. Surprisingly the first record of milk being used to make hot chocolate was 1727.Many years later, people found a way to more easily transport chocolate-- the chocolate bar! These are made in a similar way to the cocoa powder, but it is usually ground more finely. Cocoa butter is removed to make a dry powder. This dry powder is mixed with sugar and part of the cocoa butter at high temperature for up to 24 hours in a process called conching. The product must then be cooled slowly to maintain the integrity of the bar; that is preventing the cocoa butter from leaching out of the mixture. While still warm, the chocolate is poured into molds (the metal ones not the fungal kind) and allowed to cool into its final shape.
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