Sandwich and iced chocolate

A lecturer at the University of Leicester, believes that she found the first English recipe of chocolate ice desserts.

Dr Kate Loveman of the University’s School of English has published a new paper, The Introduction of Chocolate into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640–1730, in the Journal of Social History exploring the early history of chocolate in England.

She has found the first English recipes for iced chocolate treats, collected by the Earl of Sandwich in 1668 – some hundred years before his great, great grandson allegedly invented the sandwich.

The Earl’s own recipe reads: “Prepare the chocolatti [to make a drink]… and Then Putt the vessell that hath the Chocolatti in it, into a Jaraffa [i.e. a carafe] of snow stirred together with some salt, & shaike the snow together sometyme & it will putt the Chocolatti into tender Curdled Ice & soe eate it with spoons.”

The Introduction Of Chocolate Into England: Retailers, researchers and consumers 1640-1730 research was published in the Journal of Social History. (MTI)