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Alex Rast

at Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:54:31 GMT in <D5-
>, (Julia
Altshuler) wrote :

>When you see "chocolate liquor" in a list of ingredients in a chocolate
>candy (as in a bar of chocolate, or a chocolate covered cherry), what is
>that referring to?

Chocolate liquor is the raw cocoa mass after it's been ground. It does
include the cocoa butter. Indeed, you might say that if you're buying a
100% (unsweetened) chocolate you're simply buying chocolate liquor.
Typically, "unsweetened chocolate" has been a little more processed
(refined, conched) while chocolate liquor tends to refer simply to ground
cacao bean, but it's largely semantic.

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Alex Rast

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