The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao PreparationsZipperer, Paul
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The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations
Zipperer, Paul
Cacao; Chocolate; Cocoa
=Raspberry chocolate= (Sarotti), German patent 181760 and 204603,
prepared with addition of the juice of the raspberry.
=Saccharin-cocoa= gives the following results on analysis: water 7·26
percent, nitrogenous substance 20·5 percent, theobromine 2·09
percent, fat 32·25 percent, saccharin 0·4 percent, starch 13·02
percent, non-nitrogenous extractives 13·51 percent, woody fibre 5·27
percent, ash 5·93 percent, (potash 2·16 percent, phosphoric acid 1·69
percent). See also Hansa-Saccharin-cacao on page. 00.
=Somatose-cocoa with sugar and somatose-chocolate= contains about 10
percent somatose[251]; the first preparation contains 20·71 percent
total nitrogenous substance, and the latter 10·24 percent, of which
about ⅓ consists of soluble nitrogenous compounds. (Mansfeld.) The
first preparation could be readily prepared by mixing 10 parts of
somatose (Farbwerke Bayer &. Cie., Elberfeld) with 50 parts of sugar
and 40 parts of cocoa powder.
=Theobromade= (theobromine) is a dry extract from cacao husks.
=Dr. Thesen’s Proviant= comes into commerce in the form of chocolate
and is chocolate with an addition of albumin. Its analysis gives the
following results: Albumin 20·5 percent, theobromine 0·56 percent,
fat 39·79 percent, carbohydrates a) (soluble) 26·95 percent, b)
(insoluble) 5·66 percent, ash 2·25 percent, water 1·57 percent. A
similar product to Thesen’s Proviant results from mixing: albumin 12·5
parts, fat (cacao butter) 10 parts, fat (cocoa nut butter 7·5 parts,
sugar 25 parts, cacao 45 parts.
=Tropon-cocoa= is a varying mixture of tropon, 15-33⅓ percent, with
cacao powder. A tropon cocoa containing 20 percent of tropon gave on
analysis: water 5·75 percent, albumin 38·49 percent, fat 27·77
percent., fibre 3·76 percent, ash 4·51 percent, theobromine 1·6
percent., extractives 22·78 percent.
=Tropon-chocolate= is a chocolate containing 25 percent tropon.[252]
=Tropon-Oat-cocoa= contains 20 percent of tropon, 30 percent of oat
meal and 50 percent of cocoa powder.
=Wacaca des Indes= consists of 60 parts cacao powder, 165 parts sugar,
8 parts cinnamon, 2 parts vanilla and some tincture of ambergris.
=White chocolate= contains sugar 3000 parts, rice meal 860 parts,
potato flour 250 parts, cacao butter 250 parts, gum arabic 125 parts
and vanilla tincture 15 parts.[253]
FOOTNOTES:
[237] Hahn-Holfert, Spezialitäten und Geheimmittel, page 300.
[238] Pharmazeutische Zeitung 1888, page 512.
[239] German patent No. 182747 (Jan. 4th 1905) 182748 (May 4th 1906).
[240] German patent No. 189733 (26th February 1906), 189734 (Dec. 11th
1906).
[241] Which would seem to be the only proper employment of the total
patent claim.
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