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Default Mole vs Mole Sauce

Paul M. Cook > wrote:

>"Pringles CheezUms" > wrote in message


>>I have a recipe for tacos that uses mole sauce.
>> At the grocery store, all they had was a jar of mole, that when opened
>> had the consistency of very very tough & dry homemade peanut butter,
>> with the oil on top. Even when I stirred the liquid back in, it was
>> still very hard to stir. I mean, it smelled pretty good and all, but is
>> is supposed to be this hard?
>> Is this mole that I got the mole sauce the recipe wanted, or is there
>> mole 'sauce' like i think of it that is pourable?


>That's the stuff. You'll need to heat it up to soften it. You can stand it
>in a pot of boiling water or possibly nuke it for a few seconds. But the
>good stuff is pretty thick.


I have never been impressed with the jarred mole products. I find it
relatively simple to make a good mole sauce from scratch.

Steve
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