1892 Drinks of the world

COCOA. — Its Manufacture

— Its Use Abroad and in — Chocolate, Edible and Other-

Where Cocoa is

Grown

— Cocoa as a Drink

England

wise — Substitutes for Cocoa. LINNj^US was SO fond of the drink made from the seeds of this plant that he gave it the name of Cacao Theobroma, or ** Food of the Gods." As a drink it cannot be classed among the infusions, like tea, nor is it roasted and ground to powder like coffee ; but the seeds are crushed and mealed in a mill, and from this oily meal is made the thin gruel which we drink as cocoa. It seems to have been originally a native of Mexico, and is now cultivated there, in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, New Granada, 320