Heart to Hearth Cookery

The Morris Jumel Mansion February 20, 2010

This is a picture of the Morris Jumel Mansion today as I saw the picturesque historic site for the first time.  You would hardly believe that the Mansion was in Manhatten!!!  Situated on a hilltop, gives it the appearance that it is not in a city at all, and made the mansion the perfect location for General George Washington to be headquartered in the Fall of 1776.  But today the mansion held its 2nd Annual Chocolate Day and I was fortunate to be part of the program demonstrating and providing guests with hands-on opportunities to grate chocolate cakes and use a molinello to produce a frothy chocolate beverage.  Many people tasted St Disdier’s 1692 receipt (recipe) for chocolate that calls of sugar, cinnamon, Indian

Preparing for hands-on grating and mxing of chocolate

chili, cloves and vanilla.  The room was filled with the aroma of chocolate and spices.

There are a few places left in my Chocolate Workshop on March 6, 2010 where participants roast cacao beans, use the metate and try several chocolate receipts.  Visit my website at www.hearttohearthcookery.com.