microrobert
08-31-2013, 04:21 AM
350-Year-Old Recipe for Icy Chocolate Drink Found
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The same aristocratic line that that lent its namesake to the sandwich may have a claim on the Mocha Frappuccino, too.
A researcher in the United Kingdom says she has discovered a 350-year-old recipe from the Earl of Sandwich for a chilled chocolate dessert that would have been similar to the frozen drinks sold at coffee houses today.
"It’s not chocolate ice cream, but more like a very solid and very dark version of the iced chocolate drinks you get in coffee shops today," researcher Kate Loveman, of the University of Leicester, said in a statement. "Freezing food required cutting-edge technology in 17th-century England, so these ices were seen as great luxuries."
350-Year-Old Recipe Found for Icy Chocolate Drink | LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/39346-frozen-chocolate-recipe-britain.html)
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The same aristocratic line that that lent its namesake to the sandwich may have a claim on the Mocha Frappuccino, too.
A researcher in the United Kingdom says she has discovered a 350-year-old recipe from the Earl of Sandwich for a chilled chocolate dessert that would have been similar to the frozen drinks sold at coffee houses today.
"It’s not chocolate ice cream, but more like a very solid and very dark version of the iced chocolate drinks you get in coffee shops today," researcher Kate Loveman, of the University of Leicester, said in a statement. "Freezing food required cutting-edge technology in 17th-century England, so these ices were seen as great luxuries."
350-Year-Old Recipe Found for Icy Chocolate Drink | LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/39346-frozen-chocolate-recipe-britain.html)