CHOCOLATE

A term said to be compounded of two Indian words, choco, sound, and alt a, water, from the noise made in its preparation. Chocolate is made by triturating the roasted cocoa nut into a paste in a heated mortar, sugar and some aromatics being occasionally added; the oily matter of the nut gives it whilst hot a due consistence, so that it is cast in tin moulds, in which it concretes, on cooling, into cakes. It is a rich article of diet, and apt to disagree with weak stomachs. [s. 239]