Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes

Historic recipes by Maria Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill (1914)

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About This Dataset

Explore 146 vintage recipes from "Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes" by Maria Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill, a culinary guide from 1914 focused on chocolate and candy-making.

The original book combines historical context with culinary instruction, tracing cocoa's origins back to the Aztecs and its journey to European culture, discussing the medicinal virtues of chocolate supported by notable dietetic experts, and providing practical methods for delicious homemade treats. Recipes include Chocolate Layer Cake, Chocolate Mousse, Spanish Chocolate Cake, Parisian Sweets, frostings, candies, and traditional cocoa beverages.

This demonstrates Wire's ability to extract structured data from unstructured prose, turning a century-old cookbook into a searchable, queryable database that AI agents can explore.

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What You Can Do

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Ask Questions

• ? What chocolate cake recipes use cocoa powder?
• ? How do you make chocolate mousse from 1914?
• ? What candies can I make with Baker's Chocolate?
• ? Which recipes are quickest to prepare?
• ? What vintage hot chocolate recipes are available?

Get Things Done

• Find all cake recipes and compare their ingredients
• List the candy recipes sorted by complexity
• Search for recipes that use nuts
• Create a menu of vintage chocolate desserts
• Find recipes suitable for a holiday party

Available Tools

list_recipes Browse

Browse all recipes with pagination and sorting by title, category, or type

search_recipes Search

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filter_recipes Filter

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semantic_search_recipes Search

Natural language search across recipe content, ingredients, and instructions

get_recipe Get

Get complete recipe details including ingredients and instructions

Data Source

This data is sourced from the publicly available Project Gutenberg - Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes .

Files Used

• pg13177.txt — Full text of the 1914 cookbook by Maria Parloa and Janet McKenzie Hill

Last updated: December 2025

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