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Luker baking chocolate (from Goya) - your opinion?
On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 5:51:36 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:33:19 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsiyahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> >On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:31:50 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
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> >> > I can't say what 20 year old chocolate would taste like but
> >> > I'm willing to bet 5 bucks that it won't taste like chocolate.
> >>
> >> and I'm willing to bet $5 that I'll never find out. 
> >
> >I'll bet $5 that you could if you wanted to. 
>
> Luker chocolate isn't tastey to start, even fifty years won't make it
> worse. It's not eating chocolate (it's hard like stone), but it makes
> very decent frothy Mexican style cocoa... it's good with a titch of
> cinnamon. It takes about five minutes to melt/dissolve in boiling
> water, add some milk and froth it with a hand held beater. It was
> 9ºF outside so I tried some this aftenoon, it makes very good cocoa,
> far better than Swiss Miss. Actually I had TIAD cocoa because I had
> cocoa with a stick of Boars Head pepperoni... wasn't damned awful but
> I gotta say, cocoa and pepperoni is definitely a TIAD combo.
> Anyway I went into town this morning to get my mail and pick up a few
> groceries, got a very nice 3.66 lb top round roast, on sale all week
> at $3.99/lb., will be oven roasted for dinner on Tuesday. They had a
> few different beef roasts on sale at the same price but I much prefer
> top round because I don't like fatty beef... I really don't enjoy rib
> roasts, too fatty. They had asssorted Keebler crackers on sale, 3
> boxes/$5, the Pretzel Thins w/sea salt are very good. Those Keebler
> elves do a good job... got me wondering if there are female elves with
> lovely elve bazooms.
I have some Abuelita Chocolate tablets. What I don't have is milk. Bummers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4SGxMrXmo4
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