"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue 15 Feb 2005 09:58:39p, Janet Bostwick wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> Can I substitute chipped chocolate from a piece of one of those 15 pound
>> blocks of Ghirarardelli for chocolate chips in a recipe? I don't have
>> enough chocolate chips for a candy recipe where the chips are melted,
>> but I do have a piece of the other chocolate. Thanks
>> Janet
>
> Absolutely! The Original Toll House Cookies were made with chopped
> chocolate. There were no chocolate chips at that time, as they were
> invented
> after the increasing popularity of the cookie.
>
> Not that it matters that much, but is your Ghirardelli chocolate
> bittersweet
> or milk chocolate?
>
> Wayne
>
Thanks, Wayne. I thought the melting properties were the same but I had
something niggling in my mind from some Cook's Illustrated article I read
years ago and I just didn't feel comfortable until I checked with someone.
This hunk is semi-sweet chocolate. I wanted to make another batch of
Rachael Ray's Christmas 'Fudge.' Definitely not a real fudge, but it
reminds me of that little candy bar you used to be able to buy--about 1 1/2
inches square by 3/4 inch high, wrapped in foil and it was chocolate,
raisins and cashews--can't remember the name of it. I made substitutions
to the recipe with that candy bar in mind. Here's the recipe

Five-Minute Fudge Wreath
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
Ingredients
1 (12-ounce) bag semisweet chocolate morsels
9 ounces (3/4 of a 12-ounce bag) butterscotch morsels
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (8-ounce) can walnut halves
1/2 cup (a couple of handfuls) currants

8-inch cake pan, lightly greased with softened butter
Candied cherries, red and green, for garnish, optional

Directions
Place a heavy pot on the stove and preheat it over low heat. Add chips and
milk and stir
until chips are melted and milk combined. Save the empty condensed milk can.
Stir in vanilla and remove fudge from heat.
Add nuts and currants and stir in immediately.

Janet