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Joseph Rowntree at Quaker Tapestry

Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925) Listen to Joseph Rowntree’s story (told by our friend in costume Jim at the Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal). Today’s melt-in-your-mouth chocolate experience has taken over 200 years to achieve! Chocolate was first consumed in England from the 1680s as a drink with sugar. The first chocolate bar, made by the Quaker company Fry’s in 1847, had a grainy texture. It was the Swiss who developed smooth milk chocolate bars around 1880. After much development, the well-known Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bar was launched in 1905. How did the company Rowntree’s begin? Mary Tuke, a York Quaker, opened her grocery shop in 1725. She had to fight a long and persistent battle with the powerful ‘Merchant Adventurers’ Company’ and eventually gained her right, as a woman, to trade. Several generations later, in 1862, the Tuke chocolate business was sold to Henry Rowntree. From Beer to Chocolate! In the 18th century, drinking water was often polluted. Quakers brewed beer as an alternative. Water quality improved from the mid-19th century and the Quaker chocolate makers, Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree, began to produce nutritious chocolate drinks. Their idea was to help reduce the excessive consumption of alcohol.