Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics in the source document have been transcribed _between underscores_; small capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS. The language used is that of the source document; inconsistencies have not been addressed. Table of Contents: the chapter title for chapter VI does not agree with the headings (_Suggestions_ and _Receipts_) in the text. THE CHOCOLATE-PLANT (THEOBROMA CACAO) AND ITS PRODUCTS. [Illustration: THE FRUITING-STEM OF A CHOCOLATE-PLANT, THE FLOWERS, YOUNG FRUIT, AND RIPENED POD ALL SPRINGING FROM THE OLDER WOOD.] DORCHESTER, MASS.: WALTER BAKER AND COMPANY. 1891. _Copyright, 1890_, BY WALTER BAKER AND COMPANY. University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY 5 I. OUTLINE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHOCOLATE PLANT. -- ITS PRIMITIVE CULTIVATION. -- EARLY METHODS OF UTILIZING THE SEEDS. -- INTRODUCTION OF THE BEVERAGE INTO EUROPE 7 II. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHOCOLATE PLANT. -- THE PRESENT RANGE OF THE PLANT UNDER MODERN METHODS OF CULTIVATION. -- COMMERCIAL RELATIONS 16 III. THE SEEDS OF THE CHOCOLATE PLANT, AS THEY APPEAR IN COMMERCE. -- THEIR MICROSCOPIC AND CHEMICAL CHARACTER 23 IV. MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE, AND BREAKFAST COCOA 26 V. SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHOCOLATE SEEDS. -- VALUE OF CHOCOLATE AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD. -- APPLICATIONS OF COCOA-BUTTER 32 VI. A FEW CULINARY RELATIONS OF CHOCOLATE AND BREAKFAST COCOA, BY MRS. ELLEN H. RICHARDS AND MISS PARLOA 35 INTRODUCTORY. Four years ago, a convenient handbook on the production and use of various preparations of the chocolate plant was published by our firm. The present work is designed to give, with considerably more detail, some of the interesting facts relative to the early history and cultivation of the chocolate tree, as well as a fuller account of its botany and the chemistry of its products. Since this _brochure_ will doubtless fall into the hands of some who do not have access to the earlier work, we have used with freedom some of the material employed in that; but we hope that these necessary repetitions will increase instead of impair the value of the pages now before the reader. We trust that this second treatise may be acceptable to our many friends who gave so warm a welcome to the first. WALTER BAKER AND COMPANY. DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 1891. THE CHOCOLATE-PLANT. I. OUTLINE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHOCOLATE-PLANT.