Celebrate Chocolate Week with some of your favorite chocolate treats! Enjoy some rich dark chocolate and enjoy the healthy antioxidants delivered by nature's sweet gift!
Time and experience have shown that chocolate, when carefully prepared, is an article of food as wholesome as it is agreeable! Chocolate is nourishing, easy to digest, and does not possess those qualities injurious to beauty as some might have you believe.
Some complain of being unable to digest chocolate; while others, on the contrary, pretend that it has not sufficient nourishment, and that the effect disappears too soon. It is probable that the former have only themselves to blame, and that the chocolate which they use is of bad quality or badly made; for good and well-made chocolate must suit every stomach which retains the slightest digestive power.
The best flavor to add to chocolate is vanilla; next to that, cinnamon. Beyond these two things one should use great caution, as it is very easy to spoil the fine natural flavor of the bean. Chocolate absorbs odors readily; therefore it should be kept in a pure, sweet atmosphere. As about eleven per cent. of the chocolate bean is starch, chocolate and cocoa are of a much finer flavor if boiled for a few minutes. Long boiling, however, ruins their flavor and texture.
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