The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-30 00:00:00

CHOCOLATE.

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1 From Ifon4 awl fl•art, Decon4er 15th, 1976.
I pr 01... to do our hest to furer.ll infirm it,,,, to our real.
ti inswing lizlit. Oin. the proems by which several of or
cool iermal artieleriof utility are manufactured ; and to this end
we ...all present a faithful record .4a few vitit, to some of Vie
gr..a worksliop• in various parts 44 Cl,. country.
1‘ • begin with Cocoa and Chocolate as trounced lip Miser..
Carl iry lhor hem, and although Birmingham is no doubt more
not. as the h..rdw ire capital of the world than ae one rif the
I n...! t inni in whirl,/ he delicacies of tastearestushml and pr.ry islet,
or• i ink ram readers will roomier the foal question in any fern,
t• 15... idly it (breams.. may write the precedence of . Steel Penn,
Tr. q 44. mid Edge Tools.' indeml we ipiestiou whether green
Lon rogliam fame rimm not receive one of its meet important
coat ildititius from iii, wutl4-wido celebrity Attained by the
• 111.4 whole...rue And rieheions of colifeetienre produced in the
toriolfmory of Meow.. Cadbury Brothers.
Tli • Birmingham worts I. Lye homes, widely estenelvol. Fif-
teen years ago it, about thirty hands wore employed. TIM
nolo ~r now in from three to frier hundred. Daring till. tl me also
so m. ay improvements have been made in the arrangements Ad
ns whiner,. that each of the hands employml now turas out on
an :Average double what they ilit the.. This will give some ids&
of the laryc,•ly increased consumption of E.on, 11,,. greatest 06.
tentstru is paid in the factory to cleanliness; awl in passing
thr, nigh the rooms we notice that the ykrung women employed
wereidl clad in a kind of unitenn of clean brown holland, cover-
ing the Whole &MI. real 9.5 to 015 every morning An inter-
eating sight may be witnessol in the factory. This workpeople
—mem mid winuen—assemble for it short sod simple religious
service. This daily gathering helps to form • hotel of union
between the workpeople thertiselyrs, as well as between the em-
ployers and the employed. Solue "I the latter, as a choir. con-
duet the singing ; and snatches of the tunes often heard over the
work 'luring the day indicate the iuerest felt in the morning
service.

--.1;14.-; to 131 the quantity of e,,r.,a annually connumNi in E-
toni not reacht.l half a million pounds, wherus it nose
amounts to over nino millions. _

The COCOS tree is a native of tropical America, but Isnot
largely cultivated in other 'Arta of the world. It is an ever-
green and grows to the height of from 14 to 18 feet. It bears
flowers and fruit at all selostrui of the year: throe grow out of
the trunk and thickest, part of the b0n.... The little yellow
flowers are in cinders, and the fruit when ripe is of • beautiful
orange colour. As the planto anent bear the intense heat of.
tropical son, it W shaded by rows of loftier trees, a• bananas, or
more frequently the erythriaa or corallina, .1101 by the Spear-
lar.le moire de cacao, • tree with smorb red blossom..
The nuts are taken from th.• pod m.oro as collected, and coy-
ered with layer of sand. ThiB causes a fermentation which
developee the aroma and takes off the natural bittern.. of the
nut. They are then 'Trend out to dry in the drying or caries
house. This house consists of a atrongly Molt span roof tlzW
with wheel., running on iron rail laid along a stout framework
which support.. • platform, underneath and upon whisk
cocoa bean. are titled.
..The bags of cocoa, as they airrive from the dock., are stackc,l
up to large pile.. They come from different parts of the werld
—from Trinidad, Grenada, Cameras, Caro.., Morin.., and
even from Africa, and there are A few other choice mid special
varieties.

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These cocoa nut. or beano urn carefully waled, and the on-
-604111.1 ones rejected; they are then plaeal in rotating cyll micro
and sul jabot to &gentle heat over coke fires. until the fell
aroma no properly glen-loped. When cooled they are prated to
another room, in which mochinm are arranged for brooking the
now Cr,.!., routed not into the irregular nigments into which
the kerral is naturally divided. The neat proviso in to remove
the rater honk.! ineaus of a powerful blunt. The rich glom,
kernal Snot remaino is known in the market ander the name of
0.0(14 Nth.. The husk or shell is met off to Ireland ; where it
In 114C,1 no a light, lot byran means unpalatable table decoction,
under the designation of ' mioenthles.
The visitor is next conducted into a large TOM where a long
line of storas are working. one OM' the other, much in this emus
woy an in nninlinory thour Indio. Between these the nib, are
posed, and, no the Atonal are heated, the nib., are n-dared to •
one hily raid which flows into pane pianol to receive it, When
quite cold thin will tarn 001 a ilerftally firm, hard cake.
Up to tide point we have the cocoa in its native condition,
with the exception of the acids, Ike., thrown off in remit rig,
rad the shell removal by the fan. We now diverge into three
dittinct bruicloa Il inatinfoctore ; and an the Cocoa &MOW e is
the proluct of the firm halt known to the public, we shall give
it max-dare.
There is no imphiotication in this article; it is the same cocoa
ai- Iran- seen running from tine strata in a crerany flub!, with
tlw excel, el cocoa latter removal. The holt cooot contain,
itiont fifty per cent, of mama COMA oil or butter, and this Inn
tree fonwl to la for too large a proportion for ordinary digar
lions lir. Muter up: • The only objection which can and does
en* tn. 04 no-- in a otate of panty is the eon:naive proportion of
fa*, which renders it too nch for most digestiono, and given,
ling nt t Innately, a coloviralnlel•VAlSO for its adulteration.'
NI cram. Gunnery Itiothem have therefore paid great attention
to the pralect lots of a pure article free from this objection. The
retracd of two-thinlo of the butter is accomplialnat by means
of Cry powerful and complicated mmhinery, the result being
an inlalpable powder, fiolutle in twiling water and pownwing
1110 nutritious gluten in.l stimulating theobromine In an in-
crelonal ratio: so thot .Cocci Essence perhaps stands highest
among dietetics aa a ftmleformer and mitni iota beverage.
Stall there is n demand for COOon that thickens in the in :
all./ this comprites the second branch of manufacture to be
eater:rat. A given portion of the liqind cocoa is poured into
a large ottani-lasted loan, and weighed with the sugar, arrow-
root, Etc , which of couree differ in kind and quantity, according
to the lathe, of the chocolate powder required. Strong Iron
arras an: Own set in motira. which so completely Irrigate the
moos that in a far moments it is reduced to a_powder. Thome
clop-date powdero are cad under the semen Or Ilomtropallalc,
lailond M. 40., Breakfast, lc,. /cc.
it ie ~ relief, after witnessing them manufacturing processes,
to Innent into the Pocking Department &Imre: for Inoweven
intern-oring the 'taut!e witnessed below, one grows tired of the
Ormonnt noiae and clatter 1,1 the machinery. In the Packing
ihnom all is light, cheerful, and orderly. We watch row after
ro of girl, leanly engaged. IMe is weighing, a cement in tack-
ing ond enveloping in ma. of bright tinfonl, othird is (meaning
oil he oll..inle lola bof the COCOA Emence and other prepnratiaos
un4 an well known all over the worid.
. The third branch of mannfacture yet tab, noticed Is that of
tweet Chocolat, Or eating atol.lnnking; and here ag du we hare
rarderoun varieties. In the rant place the pure COCO. in ill,Or•
porn. al ,t In WhIIIeNIFIC in whot is called • • melangear.• Thin
' in a round stone Imoin in trim+ the cocoa and sugar are placed,
ant which remit-cn at a gnat spend, while two heavy statunnitry
runny brume the MAIN until II 1.000111.. Of shoat the °moistener
of dough Front these welragears the mixed sulatance nut
OW, pawed through machines with three grand. cylinders
which crush it still tiner, rad 10th,. slam nt is rraly for mould-
: inonto the various shop-nom! sisal for .le.
' The lest Chwolatc is flavoured oath vanilla, which in the fruit
or Mettpanl ot one of thaw Icaulthil spectre of the frailly
' Orchid..e,e that flourish in tropical Amen.. The stemsclimb
to (Inc height of twenty or thirty lest, twining natant the trunks
of Mem, and throwing out a profusion of aerial route, OMo,e of
whath eventually mutt th •g. WIWI. It seems specially adapted
tor flavouring Chocolate, snot no used principally for that 1.11.11400.
Cecos carefully an•..1C41 rid prepared in this way verb/oily
fontia the moo debt-m.of oil beverages or 0,111'4,1.1M.. The
Anti make a trwciol art icleof thin kitol, packed in bloc wiroppero,
which may fairly be comp wed to the tunnels Choonlote that
Preecutt dmeribas lAA forming a part of Mrateninea's reptant:
amputate • in golden goblets flavoured with vnuillo, awl no
prepwed m to be relma,l to in froth of the oluoingency -of honey,
which gradnolly dam-eel in tl3c mouth •
We must not put :rote this inron,ll of oar oabject without a
glance at the manufacture of the Clianolote Creillt-n. ,Int it would
take on me one more practical thou a philueophil I' to deecrilar the
ranutia of thin donne's* bonne tonehe. When finished they
are transferred to an endless lift which carrots them down into a
cellor to cool, and thee again they aro carnal by thecae., means
to the top oh the building, where bui howls are placing them
in
.boxes of all Mom.
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There is Weil another extensive timeafiscture carried on by the
firm. Ae everyone know*, the e}e ad tied as the Mato must be
gratified in three ;uteri°oo times, and therefore amount in the
este partly depends upon the !meaty and finiah of the packages.
Many hundreds of thougaiida of licautiful picture 10/C•4 of all
life. Soil extol shapes arc mum...lly ulenutectured lime. W.
follow our guide to the top of a I srge buitiling s'irre the proems
is going on, ionl tint a tiumber of girls at work. Sioue arc rut-
ting oat and stamping the cat-lb...krt. and ethers fitting the
boxm togrt li•T on bli eke, 61.41,10ag the edges with gotd gelatioa
pkicr, and fixing °tithe top thrive lime gems of art which attract
no much atteet ion 10 our shop window.. some if tlll4 %VOA 01
01111'101 00 at the Work p”ople• 11.610 e ; awl we &retold tlmt it 14
• Most interesting eight to Mad a large family henry esignipid on
i$ from morning till night.
Anything more 'tasty' than the artistic dieigot of thine
FDoate loses, if we except the t &Day' content..., snail not
De produced. At felsristassunt de, both hoses and cremes
Is only' -rim, r,iuioi : end unlike 'sweets • in gen, vi, they
t ortiv karmic. lint healthnal confections. Tliv mod
watehltn maiiiiala MI nwleq allow a MI6; itusiteil indulgence in
tem.... C4O. 1.3104.41.
1i1t... humus melt be wile! snit other Am &Amalie not lest
beg ggempii , in the sew in ile, .a at inieluir epirmito, About
tWilt e-btu Illell out 1 00y• lie 0140044 d 11, LINO malting... wooden
butes, i si. nv mit, ti, Pic `ia 01 A1e.,., ttr,, oV•sr,:tiipir it. into
Co iii ii ...roan iiir eitiour nr the um oi 1.110"••0 4,41 a ul •4•44.
1... u.; 111-. ,0•0, 00. ue I tliu 1., .rl °cut, or U. its vermin!
en; be. vroo, • aunt :etc rat•J. 1..... 0 :u Ital.
1:Ot 11, 1ir.1.6. dar 011/ Lbs., puve yes. We hope enowih has
been am i WO Aeon, • little light on what is 4isi hemming • wiry
izipnrtine Lirnacii cd iiwinstry in thin coaatry.