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The same may be said of chocolate." Playfair and Lankester: Tea contains 3 per cent. theine. Coffee " 1¾ " caffeine. Cocoa " 2 " theobromine. Probably the proportion of caffeine in coffee would be more correctly stated as 1¼ per cent. Dr. Johnson's analysis: Dried milk 35 \ Cocoa essence 34¾ \ Flesh formers in Cocoa-nibs 23 / each hundred parts. Best French chocolates 11 / Mr.
Consolidated Nibs i.e., cocoa-nibs ground between heated stones, whence it flows in a paste of the consistency of cream, which, when cool, hardens into a cake containing all the cocoa-butter. Cocoa Essence. This is the same article as No. 2, with about 60 per cent, of the natural butter removed; consequently the proportion of albuminous and stimulating elements is greatly increased.
There remain three forms in which pure cocoa may be prepared as a beverage: 1. Cocoa-nibs. The natural broken segments of the roasted cocoa-bean, after the shell has been removed, prepared for table as an infusion by prolonged simmering. It is strange that this ridiculous and wasteful means is still in use at all, as next to none of the valuable portions of the nib are extracted.
It grows from twelve to sixteen feet high, with evergreen leaves, and fruit of a deep orange colour when ripe, resembling a cucumber in shape, and containing from ten to thirty seeds. These seeds are the cacao-nuts or cocoa-nibs of commerce; in the trade, they are commonly spoken of as cocoa-nuts.
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