Sentence examples for cacao from inspiring English sources

Makes 18 240g plain flour 240g strong white flour 1¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda 1½ tsp baking powder 1½ tsp salt 280g unsalted butter, at room temperature 285g light brown sugar 225g caster sugar 2 large eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 565g dark chocolate discs (at least 60% cacao content) Sea salt 1 Sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl.

First, the Spanish word cacao (derived from cacahuatl, the Nahuatl name for the species of the tree) tends these days to describe the raw chocolate material.

So much so that the Dutch, the Belgians, the French and the British would eventually plant swathes of cacao trees in their newly acquired colonies in the tropics—and thereby established the foundations of their chocolate industries of today.

Theobromine gets its name not from the element bromine, but from the genus of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao ("food of the gods" in Greek).

It takes an inspired (or twisted) mind to think of combining crème de menthe, crème de cacao, vodka and cream to make a Flying Grasshopper.

Europeans only started importing the seeds of Theobroma cacao, a tree native to the Andes foothills between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, after Christopher Columbus's fourth and final mission to the Americas in 1502.

At this point, the question usually asked is how so tempting a delicacy as chocolate could be derived from something as bitter as the beans of the cacao tree?

In Peru's Huallaga valley over the past two decades the authorities have helped thousands of farmers to replace 81,000 hectares of coca with alternatives such as coffee, cacao, rubber and oil palm.

The effect comes from an alkaloid called theobromine found in the cacao plant.

There is no profit in going to such lengths to buy coffee or cacao, or other alternative crops.Can you really finish off coca in Colombia, I ask a major from the anti-narcotics police.

First, the cacao seeds are partially fermented.