[guide.chat] chocolate history
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- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:53:45 -0000
In 1847, Joseph Fry discovered a way to mix some melted cacao butter back into
defatted, or "Dutched," cocoa powder (along with sugar) to create a paste that
could be pressed into a mold. The resulting bar was such a hit that people soon
began to think of eating chocolate as much as drinking it. Many people credit
this as the very first chocolate bar for eating. THE STORY
Invention: candy bar in 1847
Function: noun / can·dy bar
Definition: A confection made with sugar and often flavoring and filling
with a shape that is longer than it is wide. Candy bars made with milk
chocolate are the most popular
Patent: Various candy making machines have been patented
Inventor: Joseph Fry
Criteria: First to invent. Entrepreneur.
Birth: 1795
Death: 1879
Nationality: British
Milestones:
250 Mayan society's elite consume a chocolate drink made from Cacao beans
1375 Aztec society use cacao beans as currency and as a beverage
1529 a Chocolate drink is introduced into Spain from the Americas by
conquistador Hernando Cortez
1729 Walter Churchman granted Letters Patent by George II for chocolate making
1847 Joseph Fry & Son, creates a paste that could be pressed into a mold,
resulting in bar candy
1849 John Cadbury introduces a chocolaye candy bar
1875 Milk Chocolate invented by Henry Nestle and Daniel Peter
1879 Rodolphe Lindt creates a bar that "snaps" when broken as well as melting
on the tongue.
1900 Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar was invented
1916 Clark bar invented
1919 Joseph Fry & Sons of Bristol, merged with Cadbury Limited
1923 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups was invented
1923 Butterfinger was invented
1923 Milky Way invented
1925 Kandy Kake (the original name of the Baby Ruth),
1925 Oh Henry! invented
1925 Mr. Goodbar invented
1930 Snickers Bar was invented .
1932 3 Musketeers Bar was invented
1933 Kit Kat was invented
1938 Nestle's Crunch was invented
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The Story:
Chocolate, as a Drink, was a favorite of Montezuma, Emperor of the Aztecs.
Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, brought the drink back to Spain in
1529. It remained a favorite of the Spanish royalty for many years before
becoming consumed widely throughout Europe. Three centuries later in England
chocolate was first used as a non-liquid confection.
The inventor of 'chocolate for eating' is unknown, but in 1847, Joseph Fry &
Son -- under the leadership of the original Joseph Fry's great-grandson --
discovered a way to mix some of the melted cacao butter back into defatted, or
"Dutched," cocoa powder (along with sugar) to create a paste that could be
pressed into a mold. The resulting bar was such a hit that people soon began to
think of eating chocolate as much as drinking it. Many people credit this as
the very first chocolate bar for eating.
John Cadbury added a similar product to his range in 1849, and by today's
standards these original chocolate bars would not be considered very palatable.
The early eating bars of chocolate were made of bittersweet chocolate. Milk
chocolate was introduced in 1875 when Henry Nestle, a maker of evaporated milk
and Daniel Peter, a chocolate maker, got together and invented milk chocolate.
In 1879, Rodolphe Lindt thought to add cocoa butter back to the chocolate.
Adding the additional cocoa butter helped the chocolate set up into a bar that
"snaps" when broken as well as melting on the tongue.
At the 1893 Columbian Exposition, a World's Fair held in Chicago,
chocolate-making machinery made in Dresden, Germany, was displayed. It caught
the eye of Milton S. Hershey, who had made his fortune in caramels, saw the
potential for chocolate. He installed chocolate machinery in his factory in
Lancaster, and produced his first chocolate bars in 1900.
Other Americans began mixing in other ingredients to make up new candy bars
throughout the end of the 1890's and the early 1900's. But it was World War I
that really brought attention to the candy bar. The U.S. Army Quartermaster
Corps commissioned various American chocolate manufacturers to provide 20 to 40
pound blocks of chocolate to be shipped to quartermaster bases. The blocks were
chopped up into smaller pieces and distributed to doughboys in Europe.
Eventually the task of making smaller pieces was turned back to the
manufacturers. By the end of the war the returning doughboys had grown fond of
chocolate candy and now as civilians wanted more of the same. As a result, from
that time on and through the 1920s, candy bar manufacturers became established
througout the United States, and as many as 40,000 different candy bars
appeared on the scene. The Twenties became the decade that among other things,
was the high point of the candy bar industry.
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