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caddymanWhat the hell is drinking chocolate made of?
Whatever the damn stuff is, it isn't soluble. Boil up the water, pour it in over your three or four spoons full of chocky powder and stir like a dervish. Allow to cool slightly and try to drink. The previously thick brown beverage is now a pale mud-coloured gunk thingy with the makings of a habitat for aquatic life at the bottom of the mug.
There is something of the village pond here, complete with ducking stool and scum-stagnant slither. But it's not chocolate. Admittedly if you give this confection another stir, it darkens up again and spreads the flavour back into the water, but it doesn't dissolve, it merely suspends and then only for the duration of the stir.
I fancy making some in a beer glass and timing how long it takes for the sediment to accumulate and the water to clear. I reckon the major separation would take about ten minutes, but the very light particles may take as many as two days to fully settle, though the whole mess would be transparent and muddy long before that.
Coffee dissolves, tea transfuses and malt drinks er... malt. But there is something of the iron filing about drinking chocolate.
It can't be right. It flies in the face of nature.
Whatever the damn stuff is, it isn't soluble. Boil up the water, pour it in over your three or four spoons full of chocky powder and stir like a dervish. Allow to cool slightly and try to drink. The previously thick brown beverage is now a pale mud-coloured gunk thingy with the makings of a habitat for aquatic life at the bottom of the mug.
There is something of the village pond here, complete with ducking stool and scum-stagnant slither. But it's not chocolate. Admittedly if you give this confection another stir, it darkens up again and spreads the flavour back into the water, but it doesn't dissolve, it merely suspends and then only for the duration of the stir.
I fancy making some in a beer glass and timing how long it takes for the sediment to accumulate and the water to clear. I reckon the major separation would take about ten minutes, but the very light particles may take as many as two days to fully settle, though the whole mess would be transparent and muddy long before that.
Coffee dissolves, tea transfuses and malt drinks er... malt. But there is something of the iron filing about drinking chocolate.
It can't be right. It flies in the face of nature.
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Date: 2004-04-21 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-22 01:32 am (UTC)If you let settle and microwave the cup, you get Metamorphic Chocolate.
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Date: 2004-04-22 01:53 pm (UTC)You need an equal amount of sugar (or granulated sweetener) and cocoa, 3tsp of ordinary cocoa or 1tsp of G&Bs (this is why it's actually cheaper). Stir it up before adding the water, add a little water and stir to make sludge, add the rest of the water and stir.
Much more flavourful :)
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Date: 2004-04-22 03:22 pm (UTC)