Message from discussion OT: New Chocolate Finds (Sinful!)

From: Best...@my-dejanews.com (Bestine)
Subject: Re: OT: New Chocolate Finds (Sinful!)
Date: 1999/12/08
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In article <19991207233519.01617.00000...@ng-fi1.aol.com>, 
mandal...@aol.comNOSPAM says...

>The second might only be available here in SoCal, I've never seen it anywhere
>else. It's called "Abuelita: Authentic Mexican Chocolate Drink Mix". It comes
>in funny hexagonal tablets and it takes some practice to make (you have to put
>the tablet, hot milk and sugar to taste in the blender and mix it all up), but
>it's worth it! It's unusual, chocolate and cinnamon and some other spice I
>can't quite put my finger on. But it's delicious.
>

Ah, yes...Abuelita... great stuff, very reasonably priced down here in Texas and 
available at most grocery stores (well, at least Kroger, HEB and my own personal 
fave, Fiesta).  

I don't use a blender.  I used to use  a mexican chocolate stirrer ( those interesting 
wooden stick thingies with a carved, serrated rattle-looking/sounding knob at the 
end).  But they're hard to keep clean (the butterfat from the milk seeps into the 
wood), so now I use a cheap wire wisk and it works very well.  Be sure to crunch up 
the tablet first, dump the knurdles into the pot o'milk, further stir/pulverize with 
the wisk until it's all melted...add sugar to taste (uh, Amaretto and/or Goldschlager  
works pretty nicely, too...depending on whether you're in the mood for an 
almond or mega-cinnamon blast...heh heh heh). 

-- 
Bestine
Cordelia of Sarcastica...she who brought hands across America (or was that 
she who was handled across America?)