Dutch chocolatier Coenraad van Houten. Black cocoa is actually a type of ultra-Dutched cocoa powder, but most Dutch-process ...
The process was invented by Coenraad Johannes van Houten, a Dutchman (thus the name “Dutch-process”). Dutch-process cocoa powder is milder on the palate, though it can, paradoxically ...
In the early 1800s, van Houten discovered that by removing most of the cocoa butter from unprocessed ... his method in 1828 and further refined the powder by treating it with alkaline salts ...