An 18th Century Ship's Decanter-Timbertown Port NSW.

Recently my youngest son and my Daughter-in-law bought me a bottle of port for my Birthday. The bottle looked very familier, so I did a search. This bottle is very representative of an 18th century ship's decanter. They purchased this port from Timbertown here in NSW, it is about 3 hours drive away. Timbertown is a 19th century theme village, & they make their own wines.

 The top is sealed with a cork and a wax seal.

http://www.timbertown.com.au/

18th century decanters.

My Chocolate Experiment.

I purchased some dark cooking chocolate so I could try and reproduce the look of 18th century chocolate bars. I have no idea what was used to mold these bars originally, so I had to use some modern technology. I used a half egg box and some aluminium foil.

My wife said that I should have melted the chocolate in a kettle that was inside another kettle of water to stop the chocolate from burning! Next time.

Turned out okay, but, the heating process has changed the chocolate in some way, because now it melts at the slightest touch where as it did not do so before melting!

I will have to try another method. More on this later.