The document provides answers to questions about the history of chocolate. It details that the Aztecs mixed cacao with vanilla, pepper and honey to make a drink called "cacahuatl" or "bitter water" that wasn't very sweet. Hernán Cortés met Moctezuma II and took three chests of cacao beans back to Spain. The Spaniards then added hot water and sugar to the cacao beans, and an English doctor later added milk instead of water. The first chocolate bar was made in 1847 but was very expensive, until Hershey's made the first cheap chocolate bar.
The document provides answers to questions about the history of chocolate. It details that the Aztecs mixed cacao with vanilla, pepper and honey to make a drink called "cacahuatl" or "bitter water" that wasn't very sweet. Hernán Cortés met Moctezuma II and took three chests of cacao beans back to Spain. The Spaniards then added hot water and sugar to the cacao beans, and an English doctor later added milk instead of water. The first chocolate bar was made in 1847 but was very expensive, until Hershey's made the first cheap chocolate bar.
The document provides answers to questions about the history of chocolate. It details that the Aztecs mixed cacao with vanilla, pepper and honey to make a drink called "cacahuatl" or "bitter water" that wasn't very sweet. Hernán Cortés met Moctezuma II and took three chests of cacao beans back to Spain. The Spaniards then added hot water and sugar to the cacao beans, and an English doctor later added milk instead of water. The first chocolate bar was made in 1847 but was very expensive, until Hershey's made the first cheap chocolate bar.