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=Aztec Menus = 

﻿As a class, we will be creating an assortment of Aztec menus.

The Aztecs ate a variety of foods. The most important was maize, or corn, It was eaten raw, or grounded on hot stones.

Other main foods were beans, sees, wild plants, and insects such as ants and worm. Meat consisted of game animals such

as pheasants, ducks, deer, boards, and bears.

Foods were highly spiced and covered with a variety of sauces make from sage, peppers, tomatoes, and pimentos.

During excavations in modern Mexico, archaelogists uncovered a recipe for a royal sauce served at the table of the Aztec

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">kings. It took three days to prepare and had the following ingredients: four kinds of peppers, garlic, cinnamon, cloves,

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">black peppers, caraway and sesame seeds, raisins, almonds, peanuts, onion and chocolate!

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Chocolate is made from cacao beans. These beans were so highly prized that they were even used as currency. While most

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Aztecs drank water, rich families and royalty drank a chocolate drink called xocoatl. Montezuma loved the drink so much

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">that it is said that he drank as many as 50 cups a day! When Cortes arrived, one of Montezuma's warehouses contained

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">over 2,000,000 pounds of cacao beans. Cortes introduced chocolate to Europe, where it was sweetened with sugar and vanilla

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">and made into the chocolate that we know today!

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Now it's your turn to make an Aztec Restaurant Menu!

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