On Mon, 05 May 2008 00:44:46 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

>"pavane" > wrote in
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>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>|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.

None of that, thank you.

koko
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