CHOCOLATICAL

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1652 - Chocolate, or, An Indian Drinke
By James Wadsworth;
see below From: The Project Gutenberg EBook of: Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke, by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma
Translated by James Wadsworth

"And as for the rest of the ingredients, which make our Chocolaticall Confection, there is 
notable variety; because some doe put into it black Pepper, and also Tauasco (a red 
roote like madder).; which is not proper, because it is so hot and dry; but onely for one, 
who hath a very cold Liver. And of this opinion, was a certaine Doctor of the University 
of Mexico, of whom a Religious man of good credit told me, that he finding the ordinary 
round Pepper was not fit to bring his purpose about, and to the end, he might discover, 
whether the long red pepper were more proper, he made triall upon the liver of a Sheepe; 
and putting the ordinary pepper on one side, and the red pepper on the other, after 24 
hours, the part, where the ordinary pepper lay, was dryed up; and the other part continued moist, as if nothing had bin thrown upon it."