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Default Luker baking chocolate (from Goya) - your opinion?

On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 20:07:49 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
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>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:
>>
>> >On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:31:50 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>> >> dsi1 wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > 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


That's pretty much what I did only I used my KitchenAid hand mixer.