Hope you didn't overindulge …
R.E. Rodda Candy Company, Rodda Easter Candy, ca. 1925, chocolate bunny.
"Jack" weighed approximately 5 pounds!
—Elizabeth Periale
Chocolate Bunny
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Tag Archives: Chocolate
Just Add Chocolate
For National Cocoa Day we thought we might share some chocolate recipes from our staff—a recipe for chili from Polly Lasker, and some hot chocolate from Ninette Dean—both sure to warm you up.
Just add chocolate!
—Elizabeth Periale
Crock Pot Chili
One lb. ground beef
One can diced tomatoes
One can tomato paste
Two cans kidney beans
One can beef broth
Half a bag of frozen onions & peppers
1/2 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon sugar
Black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, season-all salt, red pepper flakes to taste
One square of baker's chocolate
Water as needed
Brown the ground beef then throw everything in a crock pot.
Cook for a few hours.
Chocolat Chaud
This is one of the ways the French make it. Choose a premium chocolate for the best chocolat chaud.
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 7 minutes
Ingredients:
6 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
¼ cup plus 3 tablespoons hot water, divided
3 cups hot milk
Sugar, to taste
Whipped cream
Chocolate curls
Preparation:
Using a double boiler or a heat-safe glass bowl over simmering water, melt the chopped chocolate into ¼ cup of the water. Stir in the 3 tablespoons hot water and milk until the chocolate mixture is smooth. Pour the hot chocolate into cups and add sugar as desired. Garnish each cup with a spoonful of whipped cream and a few chocolate curls.
Image:
Lyman Abbott, The House and Home: a practical book. Volume I, 1896. "An Electric Kitchen" from The Making of a Homemaker.
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Sweet Success of Hershey
February 9th celebrates the world of Milton S. Hershey and the introduction of the Hershey bar. From the humble beginnings of a caramel manufacturer, Hershey paved the way to mass produce milk chocolate bars. It all started with a visit to the J. M. Lehmann exhibition of milk chocolate during the 1893 Chicago Fair. Hershey recognized an opportunity and purchased all the assembly equipment. After the close of the fair, the equipment was then shipped to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he built his plant and town. Hershey stopped production of his caramels to focus solely milk chocolate production. After a lot of trial and error, by 1900 the first Hershey bar was introduced. Ahhh, sweet success.
You can find several books on Hershey in the Libraries collection at NMAH.
The Emporors of chocolate : inside the world of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner 1999.
Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's extrordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams by Michael D'Antonio 2006
Hershey chocolate cookbook, Hershey Chocolate Co. 1979.
Hershey farsighted confectioner, famous chocolate, fine community. Sammuel Forry Hinkle 1964.
Chocolate : history, culture, and heritage. (Ed.) Louis evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro 2009.—Ninette Dean
Top Ten Countdown
R.E. Rodda Candy Company, Rodda Easter Candy , ca. 1925, chocolate bunny (above), chocolate chicken (below)
Taking a page from O Say Can You See, the National Museum of American History blog, the Libraries has also taken a look back at its blog entries since February 2009, when we started posting daily.
Libraries staff have created some very interesting posts—as interesting and varied as its collections. We are all having fun sharing our collections and activities and are happy to report that our traffic has increased—so you must be enjoying it, too!
Here are the top ten posts for 2009:
1. Sunday, April 12—Chocolate Rabbits and…Elephants!—Apparently the delicious combination of chocolate, rabbits, and elephants proved hard to resist in our most popular post—Alexia MacClain's wonderful Easter-themed entry, from the trade literature collection at the National Museum of American History Library.
2. Tuesday, April 14—National Library Workers Day—It's heartening to discover that one of our most popular posts this year focused on the staff of the Libraries. Whoo hoo for us!
3. Tuesday, September 15—Apollo XI and beyond!—The National Air & Space Museum librarian Bill Baxter and Liz O'Brien put together this little bit of air and space history post about a gift of lunar module flight manuals.
4. Monday, April 13—Thomas Jefferson's Birthday—Some of the most fun posts to put together are ones that highlight hidden gems from Libraries' collections on a single topic. In this case, books about Thomas Jefferson from all over the Libraries help to create a portrait of the third president of the United States.
5. Thursday, October 15—October is National Stamp Collecting Month!—this post by National Postal Museum Library staff Cassie Mancer, Paul McCutcheon & Mary Ann Wilson highlights stamp collecting and links to wonderful images on the Libraries flickr site.
6. Wednesday, September 16—Scholars and the Everywhere Library—Dan Cohen's popular lecture generates multiple page views as people continue to tune in to his webcast, which was part of the Libraries' ongoing lecture series.
7. Tuesday, November 10—New and Notable Pop-ups & Movables: Yellow Square—this post by Elizabeth Broman from the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library in New York highlights our other blog, Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn as well as our upcoming pop-up exhibition of the same name which will open in May 2010 at the National Museum of American History.
8. Wednesday, September 30—A Second Look Uncovers a First Edition: a Manuscript Page from Darwin's Origin of Species—Kirsten van der Veen's interesting post gives a glimpse into research and scholarly inquiry at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.
9. Thursday, November 12—Sylph—A Fairy Inhabiting the Air; Airy, Graceful—Webster—National Museum of American History Library intern Mary Jinglewski contributed this post highlighting an 1892 bicycle trade literature catalog.
10. Wednesday, October 7—Closing for Renovation: Freer-Sackler Library—This informative post is generating a lot of traffic as patrons keep up with what's happening at our Freer/Sackler Library.
Thanks so much to everyone who reads this blog. Please continue to join us, follow us, subscribe, and leave a comment on anything of interest, and we promise to continue to focus on the Libraries and its wonderful collections!—Elizabeth Periale