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245 1 4 _aThe chocolate-plant (Theobroma cacao) and its products
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-10
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _aThe chocolate-plant (Theobroma cacao) and its products by Anonymous is a scientific and industrial pamphlet from the late 19th century. It surveys cacao’s origins, botany, chemistry, cultivation, processing into chocolate and cocoa, their nutritional qualities, and practical culinary uses. The book opens with the pre-Columbian and early colonial history of cacao, describing indigenous roasting, grinding, and foaming methods and the swift spread of chocolate in Europe. It then details the plant’s morphology and growth, the bearing of pods on older wood, shade and irrigation needs, harvesting, fermentation (“sweating”), drying, and major producing regions. A technical chapter characterizes commercial beans microscopically and chemically, noting starch, cellulose, proteins, theobromine, ash, and especially cocoa-butter. Manufacturing chapters explain cleaning, roasting, winnowing to nibs, fine grinding into plain or sweetened chocolate, pressing to reduce fat for breakfast cocoa, and caution against chemically alkalized cocoas that diminish natural flavor. A physiological section argues cacao’s value as real food—combining carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, and theobromine—and explains why partial fat removal can aid digestion while purity and fineness are essential. The closing portion offers cooking guidance and recipes (by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards and Miss Parloa) for properly boiling chocolate and cocoa and for using them in drinks, cakes, icings, ice-cream, puddings, and Bavarian cream. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDorchester: Walter Baker and Company, 1890
653 _aCocoa
653 _aChocolate
653 _aCocoa products
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/plantthchocolate00waltrich/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76852
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