"pavane" > wrote in
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> > wrote in message
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>|I have some Bakers brand unsweetened and semisweet baking chocolate
>| squares that have been in the back of the cupboard, (you know what
>| I'm doing today)
>| I can't find an expiration or use by date on the box. The paper on
>| the chocolate and the chocolate look as good as new but I know they
>| have to be a few years old. I checked the Bakers web site and found
>| nothing about expiration dates.
>| Could the chocolate have lost some of it's intergity? Does it "go
>| bad" or loose it's strength?
>|
>| I'm getting ready to make the Texas Doodle Pie and don't want to ask
>| "Where's the chocolate?"
>|
>| TIA for any ideas.
>
> It neither goes bad nor looses its integrity. It does not loose its
> strength. One of the constants of world war II C-Rations is that the
> chocolate bars are still good. Fear not.
>
> pavane
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>

the only worry is chocolate mold...that's when the
chocolate turns white-ish.

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