Where all is sweet .. . of probablyI asked MOV BONBONS ARE MADE. is an interesting and almost incredible fact that we Americans Impend twice as much a year for our bonbons as we do for ships. £Qur annual shipbuilding bill, according to the latest census, is about f^Qrty millions a year; while our confectionery costs us dou- le that ; and of this enormous, most pala- table produc- |pm, chocolate enters into the composition ~~ie-half. What is chocolate ?a friend one day. - Why, its made of cocoanut -shells, I guess, he said. A great many other fairly -intelligent people would doubtlessguess just
Where all is sweet .. . of probablyI asked MOV BONBONS ARE MADE. is an interesting and almost incredible fact that we Americans Impend twice as much a year for our bonbons as we do for ships. £Qur annual shipbuilding bill, according to the latest census, is about f^Qrty millions a year; while our confectionery costs us dou- le that ; and of this enormous, most pala- table produc- |pm, chocolate enters into the composition ~~ie-half. What is chocolate ?a friend one day. - Why, its made of cocoanut -shells, I guess, he said. A great many other fairly -intelligent people would doubtlessguess just as badly. Chocolate ismade of the cocoa bean. The cocoatree grows in tropical America. Its importance tothe world is not to be judged by its size: for i;stands only about twelve feet high. Big yel- r /low pods, shaped like a cucumber, grow onlarger branches. These pods are full ofaromatic kernels. These are the cocoa Cocoa Tree. m the trunk and theseeds, with oilybeans of com- 12 ^ ever, theyor crushed,roller orrbut ma-After merce. The pods are gathered and opened, the seeds taken outand dried, and then they are ready for shipment. Before they are ready for chocolate making, how- —irmjtLj^, mUSt be roastecl and shelled, and then ground Formerly they were crushed by hand, with a a flat stone, most tediously and laboriously ; chines now do the work much more expeditiously. grinding, sugar and vanilla are added, and theres your chocolate. Every one knows how palatable chocolate Here is an interesting-
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