A presentation on Chocolate made by Aadhar Gupta for Knowledge Networks (www.knowledgenetworks.net)

2. Contents:
• Chapter 1: The first
Chocolate Drink
• Chapter 2: The Secret
Passed On
• Chapter 3: Adding Sugar
• Chapter 4: Chocolate
Machines
• Chapter 5: New Tasty
Treats
• Chapter 6: Chocolate
Families – Chocolate
Companies
• Chapter 7: A Secret Recipe

3. Chapter 1: The first
Chocolate Drink
• The first chocolate
drinkers were farmers
from Central America.
• They had copied monkeys by
sucking pods.
• Now there were two parts Step 1: They let the beans
in the pod one was the pulp rot for a few days under
and the second one was the banana leaves.
beans. Step 2: Then put them out
• Everyone liked the pulp to dry in hot sun.
but everyone hated the Step 3: Then they roasted
beans.
the beans over a fire.
• Then they discovered a Step 4: Ground them into a
way to capture the
delicious smell from paste.
rotting beans as you see. Step 5: Stirred it in water
and spices.

4. Chapter 2: The Secret Passed On
• The Mayans passed on the secret of
Chocol Haa to the Aztecs but they fooled
them by telling them it is a drink fit and
from the gods.
• The Mayans served a cupful to their
emperor and he was delighted and he
declared that his warriors had to drink
the chocolate before they went into
battle.
• It was too cold for the Aztecs to grow
Cocoa so they bought it from the Mayans
and carried it.
• “the Aztecs creAted myths thAt the God
of Farming Quetzalcoatl appeared from
a paradise with a cocoa
tree..........................”
• But other people were eying on the
mAyAn so the secret wouldn’t lAst only in
Central America.

5. Chapter 3: Adding Sugar
• Hernan Cortes with the Spanish Army
defeated the Aztecs but the Aztecs
made the Spanish drink the Chocol
Haa and they loved it but, The
Spanish took all of the Aztec
treasure and cocoa beans.
• They Put Sugar into Hit and made it
proper but they wanted to Keep It a
secret.
• Prince Phillip found out and made it a
huge hit in Europe.
• it wAs hArd work thAt’s why only the
Rich People could drink it.

6. Chapter 4: Chocolate
Machines
• Factories were opening
really quickly and machines
were made really quickly
too.
• So Francis Fry decide to
make a chocolate bar and
he did.
• You know how he used cocoa
butter and made it cool so it
freezes.
• Henri Nestle made the first
ever milk chocolate.

7. Chapter 5: New Tasty Treats
• rodolphe lindt’s new mAchine
could allow people to make new
treats easier.
• Milton Hershey thought of
making chocolate into little
peaks and there you go voila you
get the famous Hershey Kisses.
• Howell Campbell decide to add
some other ingredients to make
it tastier and he named his Goo
Goo Clusters.
• Jean Neuhaus invented hard
chocolate shells that could
have soft fillings.

8. Chapter 6: Chocolate Families –
Chocolate Companies
• John Cadbury and Family
Company to Cadbury.
• Forrest Mars and Bruce
murrie becAme m&m’s.
• Rodolphe Lindt & Co. to
Lindts
• Daniel Peter and Henri
Nestle to Nestle
• Milton Hershey and
Family to Hershey
• Howell Campbell And
Family to Standard
Candy Company.

9. That’s All
Chocolate
Lovers
Made By: Aadhar
Gupta
Yr.8
The British School,
New Delhi