The emphasis on cocoa production at the expense of other food crops has meant that Sao Tome has to import 90% of food needs.
Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for coffee and cocoa and to weather conditions.
As a result, a shortage of cocoa for export has created a serious balance-of-payments problem.
Laura had taken up the cocoa tin, and was plunged in thought.
The Principal did not judge it discreet to say more to the girls, but over cocoa that evening with the mistresses she voiced her satisfaction.
We'll just jolly well lock up our cocoa tin in future, though!
They considered their nightlycocoa party one of their greatest privileges.
Fill cup about two-thirds full of water and when it boils add 1 heaping spoonful of cocoa and let boil 5 minutes.
A cup of coffee, or cocoa with milk, a roll and butter, and a slice of cold beef or ham?
To Sherbrand he said humbly: "If you'd come over to the cabin there's hot cocoa and toke there.
BAKER'S Vanilla Chocolate, Like all our chocolates, is prepared with the greatest care, and consists of a superior quality of cocoa and sugar, flavored with pure vanilla bean.
It has three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent a cup.
First of all give me a cup of cocoa or something," was Mollie's greeting.
Audrey thanked her again and again for the offer of the house, but she thought she would rather be here with her gas-ring and cocoa and chintz-covered sugar-box.
I had a cup of cocoa at Audrey Cunningham's, and don't want anything else.
Although pre-independence Equatorial Guinea counted on cocoa production for hard currency earnings, the deterioration of the rural economy under successive brutal regimes has diminished potential for agriculture-led growth.
And, of course, there was an abundance of betel, cocoa wine and tuba.
We will go out under the cacao-trees and talk, and I will bring some cocoa wine and betel to you there.
I've got some 'ot cocoa for you two officers--down in the cabin.
No food could be cooked and no cocoa made this night, because strict orders had been given that not a light had to be shown--not even the cooking bogey could be lighted.
Nothing like ship's cocoa to stand by one's stomach.
Navigator cried, and Bubbles was sent off to make thecocoa and bring it up to the chart-house.
The refreshing nature of a cup of hot tea, coffee, or cocoa is to a very great extent due to the warmth of the water.
When of equal strength cocoa was nearly as bad, but as it is usually taken much weaker, its inhibitory effect is of little consequence.
The food value of half a spoonful or thereabouts of cocoa is insignificant.
Certain much advertised cocoa mixtures are ridiculous in their pretentions, unscientific in preparation, and often injurious.
Analysis of cocoa shows a good proportion of proteids and a very large quantity of fat.
Coca is not to be confused with cocoa, which comes from cacao seeds and is used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.
The Indian soaks the cocoa in sugar juice, and in many parts the beverage is taken twice a day.
The bark is employed for caulking and cables; the shell of the cocoa is wrought and carved in many ways for spoons, cups and domestic utensils; the burnt shell is employed for dyeing black.
The quality of the Cocoa is excellent, and I have nowhere tasted better chocolate than in the Philippines, but the tree is principally planted for the private use of its possessors.
They carry on a trade in wax, cocoa and tobacco, and deck their dwellings with China earthenware.
The cocoa of Zebu is reported to be equal in excellence to that of the Caracas.
These Betsey made like the Cinnamon Cream Balls by forming the fondant into small balls and rolling in cocoa or first putting a piece of any kind of nut or candied cherry inside the cream.
If mother happened to be out of chocolate, which sometimes occurred, Betsey made a fudge with cocoa or coffee.
The candy she made by first melting the butter, adding to that gradually the cocoa and sugar, then the milk a little at a time.
After she had melted the butter, added the cocoa and sugar gradually, then the milk a little at a time, she let the mixture boil until a little of the syrup dropped in cold water formed a soft ball.
Melting the butter in the saucepan she added the cocoa and sugar gradually, then the milk and let them boil until a little of the syrup dropped in cold water formed a soft ball.
This box was of tin, and Jack suggested that they dump the cocoa out on a sheet of paper which he had in his pocket and then use the tin for a pot in which to boil water.
Water was obtained by melting a quantity of the snow, and soon they had the first can of hot cocoa ready.
The can was dried over the fire, the cocoa was replaced, and then the lads proceeded to make themselves comfortable for the night.
It won't make a very large cocoa pot, but it will be better than nothing, and we can fill it as many times as we please.
Do not put on a lid or add water because moisture or water that gets into the chocolate ruins it for chocolate coating, but it may be used for cocoa or baking.
If you wish you may add a very little melted cocoa butter to this coating, about the time you start to work it.
In most cases where the chocolate becomes too thick to coat with, you can save it by adding cocoa butter, of which we will tell you later on.
If the chocolate is too thick to coat with, it is because you have allowed some of the steam, or a drop of water to get mixed in it, and you may then add a little melted cocoa butter to thin it a little.
Some help in the cocoa plantation; the boys often go to the practical worker to help him, and they prepare bricks, carry building material where it is wanted, or finish digging or other work on the soil.
Opposite the mission station a negro has laid out a small cocoa plantation, and the fetish which is expected to protect it hangs on a tree in a corked bottle.
The plantation owner is left in the lurch by his labourers just at the critical time when he must wage war on the insects that damage the cocoa plant.
I make it a rule to insist with patients that if it is more than five hours since their last meal they must take a glass of milk and some crackers or a cup of cocoa and something to eat before going to bed.
Where the pain is much complained of the coal-tar anodynes are useful, but ice in the rectum or even suppositories of gluten, or of cocoabutter without any medication often prove useful.
I, already dressed, was hurriedly having a cup of cocoa and bite of biscuit Weston had just brought me in from the pantry.
Mr Fosset drily, with a meaning glance in my direction, eyeing my cocoa as if he rather fancied a cup himself.
While busied with the cocoa I heard her spelling out some titles, fingering leaves, and twitting Davies with the little care he took of his books.
She tilted the corner of the table in leaving the sofa and spilt cocoa over her skirt; she knocked her head with painful force against the sharp lintel of the doorway, and stumbled on the steps of the ladder.
The Wee Free procession, headed by a Brimming Cocoa Cup, was received with jeers.
But the Labour Candidate had put the pointed question, "Who made cocoa dear in the first place?
Their candidate, Mr. Guff, had made a desperate bid for popularity by offering, in conjunction with The Daily News, cocoa at reduced rates.
Half a dozen bronzed natives were setting the raking mast and bending the yard with its enormous sail of cocoa fibre.
Having made sure that the deck was deserted, he climbed softly upon the fo'c'sle and proceeded to unfasten his revolver, which he had secured to the top of his head by means of a strip of cocoa fibre.
The next time I go on the march, I shall take two or three pounds of cocoa in my box.
Yes, and cocoa and tea," Hallett said, with a laugh.
Mix thecocoa and sugar with the water and boil from 3 to 5 minutes.
Chocolate and cocoa are prepared from the bean of a tropical tree.
Cocoa is more easily digested than chocolate, because it contains less fat.
In the preparation of cocoa much of the fat is removed, and the cocoa is packed for market in the form of a fine powder.
If the cocoa is not to be served for some time, it can be kept hot or re-heated over hot water.
Though the amount of cocoa used in a cup of this beverage is not large, when prepared with milk it serves as a nutritious food.
The preparation should begin at half-past eleven, to have the cocoaready at twelve o'clock.
The cocoawas used for two meals, the first and the last in the day, and the tea for lunch.
Breakfast on the 9th was of about the same consistency as dinner on the night before, except that cocoa replaced the alcohol.
Cornflour and hot water flavoured with cocoa made a makeshift blanc-mange, and this, with sago and tapioca, constituted our efforts towards dessert.
The total consumption was one ton of cocoa and half a ton of chocolate.
At last, the tent safely pitched and hoosh and cocoa finished, the moment came to drink to Close's health and happiness.
Cadbury, well known for their cocoa and eating chocolate, supplied us with these commodities, and receive our unqualified praise for the standard of the articles and the way in which they were packed.
Thus a hot hoosh is preparing in the central vessel side by side with the melting of snow for cocoaor tea in the annulus.
I cook some thick cocoa for Xavier and give him beef-tea; he is better after noon, but very low--I have to lift him up to drink.
The former, for instance, could not at first drink the whole allowance of thick, rich cocoa without a slight nausea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cocoa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
