An Irish Invention-Drinking Chocolate!

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Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Natural History Museum, was an Irishman of note, born and raised in Killileagh, Ireland,taking an early interest in plants, herbs and the like, much of hi collection of these, were the foundation stone, for the Museum collection. But we are interested in something much more delicious,than herbs and potions discovered by this Physician, although he was on a plant hunting expedition, when he was introduced to chocolate in Jamaica. During his stay, the locals would serve the powdered bean, mixed with water, which it is said,'he found utterly nauseating,. So to make it drinkable, he found mixing it with milk made it much more palatable. He brought this chocolate recipe back to England where it was manufactured and at first sold by apothecaries as a medicine. Eventually, in the nineteenth century, it was being taken up by the firm of Cadburys' who manufactured chocolate using Sloane's recipe. source:nhm.ac.uk