Cocoa and Chocolate

Arthur William Knapp · Chapter 73 of 126

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Cocoa and Chocolate

(j) Breaking Down the Press Cake to Cocoa Powder.

The slabs of press-cake are so hard and tough that if one were banged on a man's head it would probably stun him. They are broken down in a crushing mill, the inside of which is as full of terrible teeth as a giant's mouth, until the fragments are small enough to grind on steel rollers.