Steve wrote on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:49:33 +0000 (UTC):

>> Steve wrote on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:17:12 +0000 (UTC):

>>>> 2 heaping tablespoons of cocoa
>>>> 1 heaping tablespoon of sugar-- brown is nice
>>>> a pinch of powdered chili
>>>> a few grains of salt
>>>> about 10 ounces of milk.

>>> I wonder if goat milk would be preferable or perhaps
>>> even more authentic.

>> Almost going back to Aztec times perhaps but that deprived
>> society did not have sugar and would have to use llamas :-)

> That's my thought; there were goat-like animals native
> to the new world, but no domestic bovines, and I doubt
> anyone ever successfully milked a plains buffalo cow.

> Speaking of buffalo, I recently had a blue buffalo cheese,
> something I've never seen before. (That would be water
> buffalo, of course.) It is from the Peaks District, and
> was excellent.

That might work well! After all, mozzarella cheese should be made from
water buffalo milk.


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James Silverton
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