Who Came Up With Solid Chocolate?
Cacoa beans were costly, in part because it takes rather a lot of them to make up chocolate while producing chocolate in liquid form was equally expensive to transport and over time it would spoil. Some enterprising Mexican nuns, who were looking to raise funds for their convent and missionary work, experimented and found a way of making a concentrated chocolate which was a solid and this was cheaper and easier to ship back to Europe for sale.
