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The World's Commercial Products 



MAKING BOXES FOR TRANSPORT — VAN HOUTEN S FACTORY 



and " croquettes," are made in this way. Other forms of chocolate are more often fashioned 

 in moulds, consisting of two or more parts. 



Chocolate-cigars, for instance, are made in a double mould, consisting of two portions, 

 each of which has the shape of half a cigar, the two halves fitting exactly together. They are 

 however, sometimes made by pouring the liquid mass through hollow tubes. Chocolate-fishes 

 and other such simple objects are made in a similar manner. Chocolate- eggs are as a rule 

 made hollow — at least if they are not too small — by taking two moulds each in the form of 

 half an egg-shell, filling them with a thin layer of chocolate, and uniting the two halves thus 

 obtained to make one egg. 



Small tablets, fruits, and other objects filled with cream, are made in the following way : 

 The cream filling is made, allowed to harden, and then dipped into the melted chocolate so 

 as to receive a complete coating. 



Innumerable other varieties of chocolate and chocolate-coated sweets are made, and it 

 would be impossible to enumerate them and describe their method of preparation here. 



It is important to note in comparing the three staple beverages, cocoa, tea and coffee, 

 that only the first named can be regarded as a food. As has been pointed out, the whole 

 cacao-bean is roasted and ground into such a fine powder that it remains in suspension in the 

 water, so that it is all consumed. On the other hand, with tea and coffee all that is taken 

 is an infusion or solution of the substances in the leaves or seed, as the case may be, which 

 dissolve in the water. These form only a minute proportion of the products, and the 

 remainder is thrown away. The stimulating principles are very similar in all three, but in 

 cocoa we obtain these with the valuable nutritive materials in addition. 



