Steve Wertz > wrote:
: I got a craving for a cold glass of chocolate milk - not that crap
: they sell in the store that has all the disgusting thickeners in
: it.

: Is there an easy way to make it from just cocoa and sugar? My
: experience with powdered cocoa and iced coffee tells me that cocoa
: doesn't dissolve in cold liquids. Just heat the milk first? (but
: then I have to wait for it to get cold again...)

This may not really help you, but...
we recently switched from using cocoa to 99% using
unsweetened chocolate in making our 'chocolate sodas'. We
dissolve a one ounce block of chocolate [we're using
Scharffenberger] in about a cup of water by heating. You
would of course use milk. For us the one ounce block is
enough for a quart of 'soda'. Yes, there are a few flecks
of solid chocolate in the final drink, but we think that that
just makes it even more interesting. We cool the melted
chocolate-liquid mix under cold running water, which takes
just a few minutes.
--thelma
: -sw