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Chocolate was originally a bitter, spicy drink from Latin America. In the 1500s, the Spanish added sugar, cinnamon, and other spices to it. | |||
By the 1650’s, chocolate became a popular luxury drink in England. People started gathering in English coffeehouses, like the one shown [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/zq5102 here]. They drank chocolate and coffee and smoked tobacco. For more on Chocolate, visit [http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/about.html All About Chocolate] from the [http://fieldmuseum.org Chicago Field Museum]. | |||
Try this seventeenth-century recipe for hot chocolate! Ask an adult to help you. | |||
=== Seventeenth-Century Chocolate === | |||
''Based on a recipe published in England in 1652''<ref>Adapted from: ''Chocolate, or, An Indian drinke by the wise and moderate use whereof, health is preserved, sicknesse diverted and cured, especially the plague of the guts, vulgarly called the new disease ... / written originally in Spanish, by Antonio Colminero of Ledesma ... ; and faithfully rendred in the English by Capt. James Wadsworth.'', London: Printed by J.G., 1652.</ref> | |||
'''Ingredients:''' | |||
* 1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa | |||
* 1 ½ tablespoons sugar | |||
* ½ teaspoon cinnamon | |||
* 1/8 teaspoon cloves | |||
* 1 to 2 drops pure anise extract | |||
* 1 cup milk | |||
* Optional: 1 small dash cayenne (ground red pepper) | |||
'''Preparation:''' | |||
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Set it aside. | |||
Pour the milk into a small pan. Stir in the cocoa mixture and anise extract. With an adult’s help, heat the milk until steaming, while continuing to stir. | |||
(Or, you can pour the milk into a mug and heat it on high in the microwave for 1 ½ minutes. Then stir in the cocoa mixture and anise extract.) | |||
Makes one cup of chocolate. | |||
== Design a Shop == | == Design a Shop == | ||
Revision as of 19:05, 23 November 2014
This article collects the children's exhibition material featured in the Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680 exhibition.
A Trip to the First Mall
Between 1580 and 1680 in England, people were buying more and more luxury items, from porcelain bowls to pearls to lace to chocolate. Like the shopping malls of today, the Royal Exchange and the New Exchange in London were places people went to meet friends and see the latest fashions, as well as to shop.
Luxury Scavenger Hunt
This picture shows some luxury goods that were popular in England in 1647. How many different things can you find in this picture?
Now look at the chart of luxury items from seventeenth-century England.
| chocolate | fur | jewels | marble | silk | tea |
| coffee | glass | lace | paintings | silver | tobacco |
| crystal | gloves | lacquered
furniture |
pearls | sugar | velvet |
| fans | illustrated
books |
leather | porcelain | tapestries | watches |
- How many of these are still popular today?
- Do we still think of them as luxury goods?
- Can you find any of them in your home?
Chocolate Recipe
Chocolate was originally a bitter, spicy drink from Latin America. In the 1500s, the Spanish added sugar, cinnamon, and other spices to it.
By the 1650’s, chocolate became a popular luxury drink in England. People started gathering in English coffeehouses, like the one shown here. They drank chocolate and coffee and smoked tobacco. For more on Chocolate, visit All About Chocolate from the Chicago Field Museum.
Try this seventeenth-century recipe for hot chocolate! Ask an adult to help you.
Seventeenth-Century Chocolate
Based on a recipe published in England in 1652[1]
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 1 ½ tablespoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon cloves
- 1 to 2 drops pure anise extract
- 1 cup milk
- Optional: 1 small dash cayenne (ground red pepper)
Preparation:
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Set it aside.
Pour the milk into a small pan. Stir in the cocoa mixture and anise extract. With an adult’s help, heat the milk until steaming, while continuing to stir.
(Or, you can pour the milk into a mug and heat it on high in the microwave for 1 ½ minutes. Then stir in the cocoa mixture and anise extract.)
Makes one cup of chocolate.
Design a Shop
Fashion, Then and Now
Luxuries from Around the World
Do it Yourself
- ↑ Adapted from: Chocolate, or, An Indian drinke by the wise and moderate use whereof, health is preserved, sicknesse diverted and cured, especially the plague of the guts, vulgarly called the new disease ... / written originally in Spanish, by Antonio Colminero of Ledesma ... ; and faithfully rendred in the English by Capt. James Wadsworth., London: Printed by J.G., 1652.