Kathleen wrote:
> Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
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>> Kathleen wrote:
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>>> Sqwertz wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:04:13 -0500, Kathleen wrote:
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>>>>> Abuelita Mexican hot chocolate mix. These are hockey pucks of
>>>>> grainy, cinnamon-flavored chocolate which are whisked into hot milk.
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>>>> I have 4.25 pucks of it sitting next to me. I was finally curious
>>>> enough to buy some afetr all these years (I buy everything once).
>>>>
>>>> I haven't made it yet, I'm just kinda nibbling on it. The
>>>> instructions say to put it in a blender with warm (hot) milk, which
>>>> I'm not to keen on. I ain't *that* stupid.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
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>>>
>>> Hah. Did that once, when I was about 10 years old. It was
>>> memorable, especially the cleanup.
>>>
>>> That's why god gave us whisks and immersion blenders.
>>>
>>
>> Sauce pan and a spoon?
>>
>> You put the milk in the sauce pan, heat it up, drop the appropriate
>> amount of Abulita in the hot milk and stir. I use a half a cake for 1
>> extra large cup
>>
>> It dissolves very quickly in hot milk.
>
>
> Mexican hot chocolate is supposed to be frothy. I don't own a molinillo
> but an immersion blender works just fine, as does a wire whisk. I
> usually grab the whisk, as it can be thrown in the dishwasher. I use it
> the way one would a molinillo, twirling the handle between my palms -
> traditional technique with a non-traditional tool.
> http://www.chroniclebooks.com/blog/w.../06/twirl1.jpg
>

Oh right, i forgot about that, i actually have a molino i bought for a
dollar or so at a local Mexican market but its wood and the whole idea
of "frothing" a cup of chocolate with it just never seemed to make much
sense to me.

Now keeping it in a covered container in a cool cupboard till it starts
to ferment ...... but i doubt the modern commercial product would, i
think it probly has preservatives that would prevent its doing so.

I don't even like using wooden spoons with milk or dairy. I have access
to a hugh battery of wooden cooking and serving implements, not only
wooden spoons but wooden forks, slotted spoons & spatulas which i never
use. Tell you the truth, though i wont use plastic cooking tools either,
i like my plastic cutting board more than my wooden one.

But that has more to do with an irrational, instinctual, knee jerk,
reflex paranoid phobia about using wood as a cooking tool than any even
statistically significant evidence of their being anything to be even
remotely concerned about with doing so.

I sure wont taste something like a stock, sauce or hot soup with a
wooden spoon as it makes the taste seem foul to me, so i easily imagine
what putting the spoon in the soup must do, even if its a benign effect
and not applicable to the entire pot, the flavor of wooden spoons always
seems stale and sometimes bitter to me. The taste the wooden spoon
imparts to any thing held in it, but especially things heated up hot.

Of course a molino is a dedicated tool, only used with chocolate but
still, even then, just thinking about it makes my knee jerk, with
instinctual paranoia
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Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

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