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beans
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By the single word, cacao, I imply the raw product, cacao beans, in bulk.
It signifies any preparation of roasted cacao beans without abstraction of butter.
As is usual with fermentation, the temperature begins to rise, and if you thrust your hands into the fermenting beans you find they are as hot and mucilaginous as a poultice.
On opening a cacao pod, it is seen to be full of beans surrounded by a fruity pulp, and whilst the pulp is very pleasant to taste, the beans themselves are uninviting, so that doubtless the beans were always thrown away until .
Aztec with swart skin, sniffing the aromatic fume coming from the roasting beans, and thinking that beans which smelled so appetising must be good to consume.
About 1880 a native of the Gold Coast obtained some beans, probably from Fernando Po.
There is disclosed a mass of some thirty or forty beans, covered with juicy pulp.
The inside of the rind and the mass of beans are gleaming white, like melting snow.
From different pods we take beans and cut them in two, and find that the colour of the bean varies from purple almost to white.
The seeds or beans are white as ivory throughout, round and plump, and sweet to taste.
The planter should choose the large plump beans with a pale interior, or he should choose the nearest kind to this that is sufficiently hardy to thrive in the particular environment.
Masson of New York made pod-breaking machines, and Sir George Watt has recently invented an ingenious machine for squeezing the beans out of the pod, but at present the extraction is done almost universally by hand, either by men or women.
A knife which would cut the husk of the pod and was so constructed that it could not injure the beans within, would be a useful invention.
The human extractor has the advantage that he or she can distinguish the diseased, unripe or germinated beans and separate them from the good ones.
The beans are put preferably into baskets or, failing these, on to broad banana leaves, which are used as trays.