s standards are in
force, and points out, as a result of this, that articles of which the
sale would be prohibited in some other countries, are permitted to come
without restriction on to the English market.

[Illustration: WHARF AT FACTORY AT KNIGHTON, AT WHICH MILK IS EVAPORATED
FOR MILK CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURE.
(Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Ltd.)]

He suggests that the following definitions for chocolate goods are
reasonable, and could be conformed to by makers of the genuine article.
These standards are not more stringent than those already enforced in
some of the Colonies and European countries:

(1) Unsweetened chocolate or _cacao mass_ must be prepared
exclusively from roasted, shelled, finely-ground cacao beans,
with or without the addition of a small quantity of
flavouring matter, and should not contain less than 45 per
cent. of cacao butter.

(2) Sweetened chocolate or _chocolate_.--A preparation
consisting exclusively of the products of roasted, shelled,
finely-ground cacao beans, and not more than 65 per cent. of
sugar, with or without a small quantity of harmless
flavouring matter.

(3) _Granulated_, or _Ground Chocolate for Drinking_
purposes.--The same definition as for sweetened chocolate
should apply here, except that the proportion of sugar may be
raised to not more than 75 per cent.

(4) _Chocolate-covered Goods._--Various forms of
confectionery covered with chocolate, the composition of the
latter agreeing with the definition of sweetened chocolate.

(5) _Milk Chocolate._--A preparation composed exclusively of
roasted, shelled cacao beans, sugar, and not less than 15 per
cent. of the dry solids of full-cream milk, with or without a
small quantity of harmless flavouring matter.

Mr. Booth further states that starch other than that naturally present
in the cacao bean, and cacao shell in powder form, should be absolutely
excluded from any article which is to be sold under the name of
"chocolate."

CHAPTER X

THE CONSUMPTION OF CACAO

The Kernels that come to us from the Coast of _Caraqua_, are
more oily, and less bitter, than those that come from the
_French_ Islands, and in _France_ and _Spain_ they prefer
them to these latter. But in _Germany_ and in the _North_
(_Fides sit penes autorem_) they have a quite opposite Taste.
Several People mix that of _Caraqua_ with that of the