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Default Modica Chocolate


JMF wrote:
> Here in Italy I was given to taste, for the first time, "Cioccolato di
> Modica". (Modica is a town in Sicily.)
>
> They said "It's different, it doesn't use cocoa butter." And it seemed very
> grainy. This version also had orange peel.
>
> Anybody knowledgeable about this type of chocolate and can tell me a bit
> more?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John


No cocoa butter ? then its an ersatz chocolate....a compounded
'chocolate' made with sugar,cocoa butter substitute fats., cocoa
powder, sugar,emulsifier SMS/STS/LC.