How tablea is made

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Tablea are small molds of dried, ground, raw cacao. They’re then stored and used for everything chocolate, from tsokolate or sikwate, champorado, chocolate suman or moron, and more.

But how is tablea made? For a general look at how tablea is made, look at the illustrations below, made with the ancient Filipino script Baybayin.

How to make tablea

How to make tablea or tableya or raw chocolate molds

Step 1: Grow and harvest your cacao

Step 1 - grow and harvest cacao or chocolate fruit

Step 2: Remove the beans or seeds from the cacao

Step 2 - remove cacao beans

Step 3: Ferment the cacao beans.

Step 3 - ferment the cacao beans

Step 4: Dry the cacao beans.

Step 4 - dry the beans

Step 5: Roast the cacao beans.

Step 5 - roast the cacao beans

Step 6: Grind the cacao beans.

Step 6 - grind the beans

Step 7: Mold the ground cacao beans into tablets or tablea.

Step 7 - mold the tablea

Step 8 (last step): Make different Filipino dishes such as chocolate drinks or tsokolate (sikwate in Bisaya), champorado, suman, and more!

Last step - Use the tablea to make different Filipino dishes like suman, chocolate drinks, or champoradolet's eat!

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More links

  • Learn more about cacao in general, and see more art, here!
  • Baybayin fonts used in the graphics were made by Lloyd Zapanta. Download his fonts and donate money for his work at his Behance portfolio: behance.net/lloydzapanta.