CHOCOLATE RATION.
Bernard Shaw's "Chocolate Soldier" seems likely to be the warrior of the future. The sustaining powers of chocolate seem uneqiialled. At the recent manoeuvres of thr, Assyrian
troops in Galieia over a very extensive area, various kinds of portable food were tried, the essential required being a substance that could be prepared rapidly or eaten without preparation. The most satisfactory was found to be a '"chocolate ration" invented by a doctor, and consisting of ordinary chocolate with a a admixture of albumen and certain fatty matter. In a few minutes this can be cooked either in milk or water, and eaten as it is. Its nourishing value is vevy great, 100 grammes affording as much sustaining value as nearly half a kilogramme, or live times the amount of beef. The chocolate keeps remarkably well, and is affected neither by heat nor by long storage in damp and badly ventilated magazines.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 5
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