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Chocolate
Homemade Chocolate Blend
Preparation info
2 pounds
, which translates roughly into roughly of the powdered mixture (depending on how much it compacts in processing) or approximately thirty 1-ounce tablets- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1997
Scene: The backyard of my New York City house
Characters: Me (working furiously) and my twenty-year-old son Aaron (indoors, taking a shower before heading off to his restaurant job)
It is a hot, sticky summer afternoon and I am standing before my portable outdoor gas stove. Placed over the burner is a metate. This is my third attempt to make chocolate out of cacao beans. Having first tried simply grinding the beans in the food processor and adding the sugar and