Chocolate and The Lady's Pirate

 Chocolate plays a significant but small role in The Lady's Pirate. Adelaida's family are chocolatiers to the crown, but with the French invasion that's all disappeared. Especially since the royal family also disappeared to Brazil.

In the National Palace of Sintra they also had chocolate and pastry molds. No, I did not steal one! I was tempted, though! Here are some photos I took of original molds, several hundred years old. And yes, these are what Adelaida uses in The Lady's Pirate.