The Cacao Tree—Theobroma Cacao, Linné.
Zipperer, Manufacture of Chocolate etc. 3rd edition.
Verlag M. Krayn, Berlin W. 10.
THE
MANUFACTURE
OF
CHOCOLATE
AND OTHER CACAO PREPARATIONS
BY
Dr. PAUL ZIPPERER.
Third Edition
REARRANGED, THOROUGHLY REVISED, AND LARGELY REWRITTEN.
EDITOR
DR. PHIL. HERM. SCHAEFFER
FOOD CHEMIST AND MANAGING DIRECTOR.
WITH 132 ILLUSTRATIONS, 21 TABLES AND 3 PLATES.
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Preface to the third edition of “The Manufactureof Chocolate” by Dr. Zipperer.
It is now a decade since the appearance of the last edition, andowing to continual delays in the compiling of the present volume, thebook has been out of print for several years. These delays ensuedbecause the editor wished to take into account the most recent determinationsand decrees of the guilds and various legislative factorsconnected with the industry; but he was at length forced to theconclusion that notwithstanding the excellent organisation and loftystanding of the branch under consideration, it was useless to waitfor anything final and absolute in such a field. Suggestions of possibleimprovements and indications of blemishes are therefore earnestlyinvited, in order that they may be duly allowed for in the event ofa new edition.—The plan followed by Zipperer has been adoptedin the main; a tribute due to its previous success. Yet on the otherhand, the arrangement of the book has undergone some alteration,and is, at least in the editor’s opinion, a perceptible improvement.—Allscientific, industrial and technical progress has been treated asfully as possible, the economic part in particular having beendiligently recast.
It would, of course, have been impossible for the editor towrite all these chapters without external aid, his knowledge of therespective branches being by no means exhaustive enough. He maytherefore be allowed to express here his obligation and tha