Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett.

  • Hewett, Charles.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Cocoa : its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained / by Charles Hewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9, King’s-row, Pentonville, and Mr. Weston, a little Bread Baker, St. Pancras Eoad. “ In conclusion, I liave now to apologise for troubling you with this long letter ; but I thought that you would, perhaps, lend again your most powerful aid in giving publicity to the above facts, and to a plan which, if acted upon by other chemists, may give additional value to their reports, test the genuineness of the pretensions of all dealers or manufacturers, and act as a remedy against adulteration, if the public will take the trouble of sup- porting only those who, being provided with certificates obtained under such conditions, offer a better guarantee of fair dealing than could be secured by any legislative enactment. “ I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, “A. NORMANDY. “67, Judd-street, Brunswick-square, Nov. 2.” The folio-wing is the result of the analysis of the Lancet Commission:— “ Of 54 samples of different kinds of cocoa and chocolate, eight were genuine. [These eight consisted of flake and rock cocoas, which, as we before said, are the nib simply crushed into a paste.] Sugar was present in forty-three and starch in forty-six. [These are simply the matters as we have shewn which are necessary ingredients in Cocoa.] To such an extent did some of the samples consist of sugar and starch that they contained only cocoa sufficient to im- part a flavour to the articles. [To enable the public to judge of this they ought to know the prices of the articles ; we have shewn that the prime cost of cocoa, independent of any expense of manufacture, is Is. Ofd. per lb. This, therefore.