Chocolate through the Industrial revolution

By PoppyKirby
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    The Industrial Revolution

  • Nicolas Sandars combined milk with chocolate

  • Fry started to make chocolate

    Fry started to make chocolate

  • Fry and John Vaughan brought the patent for chocolate reciepes off Walter Churchman

  • You could buy some of Fry's famous chocolate for the equivalant of a weeks wage

  • After the death of Fry, his son took over and purchased a steam engine to grind the cocoa beans

  • Van Houten worked to find a way to remove cocoa butter from cocoa liquor

  • Melanguer was the first mixing machine to mix the cocoa, milk, cocoa butter and sugar

  • Van Houten created the Van Houten press which reduced the fat content leading to a coca powder

  • found a way to mix cocoa powder, suger and melted cocoa butter whuch could be cast into a mould

  • the birth of the 1st chocolate bar!!!

  • Henry Nestle discovered a process to make powdered milk

  • Daniel Peters used Nestle's powdered milk to make a new kind of chocolate

  • Conching was discovered by Lindt

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    Chocolate through the Industrial revolution

  • Fry's merged with Cadbury Brothers Ltd