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- Title:
- 64 OUNCES YEARLY
- Date Created:
- 2021-11-30
- Description:
- By the mid-1700s, approximately 4 million persons in Spain, all the Americas, and Filipinas drank chocolate 64 times on the average. They usually used one ounce of chocolate in tablea or ball form, 64 ounces annually per consumer. The recipe Nicholas Norton Nicols found common was 10 libras each of cacao and sugar flavoured by around 8 ounces (around 227 grams) or less of cinnamon. A libra varies from 358 to 460 grams. Norton calculated that the annual chocolate consumption was 16 million libras needing 400,000 libras of cinnamon. Spain was the largest consumer of cinnamon and the Dutch its top supplier. English-born Norton became a naturalised Spaniard and was granted permission to trade in the Philippines. He wanted to establish a cinnamon plantation in Zamboanga to grow cinnamon equal to that of Ceylon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) the best at the time. Norton’s enthusiasm to increase earnings of Filipinas impressed Spanish King Carlos III. Norton passed away in 1761 before he could pursue his dream. Perhaps it was his luck because the British occupied Manila the next year.
- Subjects:
- Nicholas Norton Nicols Zamboanga
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- Cinnamon varieties. FSM photo
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "64 OUNCES YEARLY", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll276.html