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Nancy Young

"Little Malice" > wrote

> One time on Usenet, said:
>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:06:42 GMT, (Little
>> Malice) wrote:
>>
>> >Maybe you guys have this info memorized, but I rounded up some
>> >stuff about chocolate substitution and thought I'd share. If
>> >I'm wrong, be sure to point it out:
>> >
>> >Subsitutes for Unsweetened chocolate (aka bitter chocolate, baking
>> >chocolate, pure chocolate)
>> >
>> >Using Cocoa:
>> >
>> >1 oz. unsweetened chocolate equals 3 T. unsweetened cocoa plus 1 T.
>> >unsalted butter, margarine, shortening or vegetable oil.
>> >
>> >Using Semi-sweet chocolate:
>> >
>> >1 oz. unsweetened chocolate plus 1 T. sugar equals 1 oz. semi-sweet
>> >chocolate.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Jani.... saved and filed.
>
> Happy to help -- I could never seem to find this info when cooking
> with chocolate (something relatively new for me) so I finally googled
> around and put this together... :-)

I saw today that you can buy pre-melted chocolate. I just
got over pre-cooked bacon.

nancy