. Cocoa and chocolate : their history from plantation to consumer. Chocolate; Cocoa. 120 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE If the reader will look at the illustration entitled " Women grinding chocolate," he will see how the brittle roasted bean is reduced to a paste in primitive manufacture. A stone, shaped like a rolling-pin, is being pushed to and fro over a concave slab, on which the smashed beans have already been reduced to a paste of a doughy 4 fig. ; Fig. i Fig. 2 Early Factory Methods. Fig. i is a workman roasting the cacao in an iron kettle over a furnace. He has to stir th
. Cocoa and chocolate : their history from plantation to consumer. Chocolate; Cocoa. 120 COCOA AND CHOCOLATE If the reader will look at the illustration entitled " Women grinding chocolate," he will see how the brittle roasted bean is reduced to a paste in primitive manufacture. A stone, shaped like a rolling-pin, is being pushed to and fro over a concave slab, on which the smashed beans have already been reduced to a paste of a doughy 4 fig. ; Fig. i Fig. 2 Early Factory Methods. Fig. i is a workman roasting the cacao in an iron kettle over a furnace. He has to stir the beans to keep them from burning. Fig. 2 is a person sifting and freeing the roasted kernels (which when broken into fragments are called " nibs ") from their husks or shell. Fig. 3 shows a workman pounding the shell-free nibs in an iron mortar. Fig. 4 represents a workman grinding the nibs on a hard smooth stone with an iron roller. The grinding is performed over a chafing-dish of burning charcoal, as it is necessary, for ease of grind- ing, to keep the paste in a liquid condition. Early European Manufacture. The conversion of these small scale operations into the early factory process is well shown in the plate which I reproduce above from Arts and Sciences, pub- lished in 1768. A certain atmosphere of dreamy intellectuality is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Knapp, Arthur William. London : Chapman
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