Cocoa and Chocolate

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Title: Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
Author: Arthur W. Knapp
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COCOA AND CHOCOLATE

Their History from Plantation to Consumer

By
ARTHUR W. KNAPP B. Sc. (B'ham.), F.I.C., B. Sc. (Lond.) Member
of the Society of Public Analysts; Member of the Society of Chemical
Industry; Fellow of the Institute of Hygiene. Research Chemist to
Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Ltd.
LONDON CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1920

PREFACE
Although there are several excellent scientific works dealing in a
detailed manner with the cacao bean and its products from the various
view points of the technician, there is no comprehensive modern work
written for the general reader. Until that appears, I offer this little book,
which attempts to cover lightly but accurately the whole ground,
including the history of cacao, its cultivation and manufacture. This is a
small book in which to treat of so large a subject, and to avoid prolixity
I have had to generalise. This is a dangerous practice, for what is
gained in brevity is too often lost in accuracy: brevity may be always
the soul of wit, it is rarely the body of truth. The expert will find that I
have considered him in that I have given attention to recent
developments, and if I have talked of the methods peculiar to one place
as though they applied to the whole world, I ask him to consider me by
supplying the inevitable variations and exceptions himself.
The book, though short, has taken me a long time to write, having been
written in the brief breathing spaces of a busy life, and it would never
have been completed but for the encouragement I received from Messrs.
Cadbury Bros., Ltd., who aided me in every possible way. I am
particularly indebted to the present Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Mr.
W.A. Cadbury, for advice and criticism, and to Mr. Walter Barrow for
reading the proofs. The members of the staff to whom I am indebted

are Mr. W. Pickard, Mr. E.J. Organ, Mr. T.B. Rogers; also Mr. A.
Hackett, for whom the diagrams in the manufacturing section were
originally made by Mr. J.W. Richards. I am grateful to Messrs. J.S. Fry
and Sons, Limited, for information and photographs. In one or two
cases I do not know whom to thank for the photographs, which have
been culled from many sources. I have much pleasure in thanking the
following: Mr. R. Whymper for a large number of Trinidad photos; the
Director of the Imperial Institute and Mr. John Murray for permission
to use three illustrations from the Imperial Institute series of handbooks
to the Commercial Resources of the Tropics; M. Ed. Leplae,
Director-General of Agriculture, Belgium, for several photos, the
blocks of which were kindly supplied by Mr. H. Hamel Smith, of
Tropical Life; Messrs. Macmillan and Co. for five reproductions from
C.J.J. van Hall's book on Cocoa; and West Africa for four illustrations
of the Gold Coast.
The photographs reproduced on pages 2, 23, 39, 47, 49 and 71 are by
Jacobson of Trinidad, on pages 85 and 86 by Underwood &
Underwood of London, and on page 41 by Mrs. Stanhope Lovell of
Trinidad.
The industry with which this book deals is changing slowly from an art
to a science. It is in a transition period (it is one of the humours of any
live industry that it is always in a transition period). There are many
indications of scientific progress in cacao cultivation; and now that, in
addition to the experimental and research departments attached to the
principal firms, a Research Association has been formed for the cocoa
and chocolate industry, the increased amount of diffused scientific
knowledge of cocoa and chocolate manufacture should give rise to
interesting developments.
A.W. KNAPP.
Birmingham, February, 1920.

CONTENTS

PAGE PREFACE v
INTRODUCTION 1


CHAPTER I
COCOA AND CHOCOLATE--A SKETCH OF THEIR HISTORY 5


CHAPTER II
CACAO AND ITS CULTIVATION 17


CHAPTER III
HARVESTING AND PREPARATION FOR THE MARKET 45 With
a dialogue on "The Kind of Cacao the Manufacturers Like."


CHAPTER IV
CACAO PRODUCTION AND SALE 81 With notes on the chief
producing areas, cacao markets, and the