CONTENTS.

CHAPTER   PAGE
  Introductory 5
I. Outline of the Early History of the Chocolate Plant. — Its Primitive Cultivation. — Early Methods of Utilizing The Seeds. — Introduction of the Beverage into Europe 7
II. The Natural History of the Chocolate Plant. — The present Range of the Plant under modern methods of Cultivation. — Commercial Relations 16
III. The Seeds of the Chocolate Plant, as they appear in Commerce. — Their Microscopic and Chemical Character 23
IV. Manufacture of Chocolate, and Breakfast Cocoa 26
V. Some Physiological Aspects of Chocolate Seeds. — Value of Chocolate as an Article of Food. — Applications of Cocoa-butter 32
VI. A Few Culinary Relations of Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa, by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards and Miss Parloa 35