E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
()
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/spicestheirhisto00fiel |
SPICES
THEIR HISTORIES
Valuable Information For Grocers
PRICE FIFTY CENTS
Copyrighted 1910
By THE TRADE REGISTER, Inc.
Seattle, Washington.
3
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION | 3 |
| ALLSPICE OR PIMENTO | 4 |
| CAPSICUM | 7 |
| CINNAMON AND CASSIA | 13 |
| CLOVES | 21 |
| GINGER | 25 |
| MUSTARD | 31 |
| NUTMEG AND MACE | 36 |
| PEPPER | 45 |
| CUMIN, OR CUMMIN SEED | 52 |
SPICES
INTRODUCTION.
The history of spices, with other valuable informationto all branches of the grocery trade, was originallywritten by Robert O. Fielding, of the staff of theTrade Register, in which the several articles appearedin various issues of that journal, duly protected bycopyright, with the accompanying illustrations.
Retail grocers everywhere will find this little bookof especial value for study and reference. It is allmeat for the salesman who realizes that success intrade these days depends upon knowing where thegoods he handles were produced, how to judge theirqualities, how they are prepared for market, andwhat are their uses. How to sell, the market conditions,etc., are continuously set forth in the weeklyissues of the Trade Register, $2 a year, by men whohave had practical experience behind the counter.