Chocolate Pandemonium

Okay, so one person’s guilty here! Chocolate has been in the mainstream for so many years and I bet many people (not only me) thank God for this one of the bountiful gifts we have in earth. Chocolates were raw products that came from Cacao. It’s been documented that around 1100 BC, Cacao is cultivated in the lands of Mexico and South America. Cacao’s seeds is kissed and dried by the sun then it will be roasted. Collected and grounded to perfection and the rest is history. It can now be processed in so many ways.

 

Types of Chocolate:

• Unsweetened chocolate – the bitter one. It is also known as cooking and baking chocolate. Can be tasted in brownies, cookies, cakes and also in some selected viands incorporating chocolate.
• Dark chocolate – produced by adding fat and sugar. It is same with semisweet and extra dark with bittersweet.
• Milk chocolate – made with milk powder and or condensed milk. The perfect example here is the Hershey’s.
• White chocolate – is consists of confection based on cocoa butter, sugar and milk and without the cocoa solids.
• Cocoa powder – also used for baking and for drinks added with milk and sugar.
• Compound chocolate – it is a combined cocoa and vegetable fats used for candy bar coatings.
• Raw chocolate – is the purest of them all. It is not been processed or mixed with other ingredients. Tablea is the perfect example here. I can eat this one time a day although its bitter. It’s healthy.

How to Cook Tablea (Hot Chocolate Drink)

 

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You need:

• Batirol / Batidor
• 2 cups of water
• 4 Tablea
• Condensed, evaporated or powdered milk (depends on your preference)
• Sugar (optional)

Instructions:

1. Put water into batirol and bring into boil.
2. Put tablea into boiling water.
3. Gently whisk batidor using your palm to meet tablea’s creamy texture.
4. Pour into cup and put milk and sugar.
5. Serve while it’s hot.

     My grandfather always prepares this when we were in Bohol way back 15 years ago. It is the first time I tasted one. Here in Cavite, there’s a café nested along the roads of Tagaytay going Alfonso. Named “Bag of Beans”, they serve tablea there and bottomless “kapeng barako”. I think that Alfonso, Cavite is now one of the cacao industries here in the Philippines that is very promising. Super Like! 

More Facts about Chocolate!

• Chocolate is high in protein, calcium and iron making our body healthy.
• Chocolate is not high in caffeine.
• Chocolate is low in sodium and cholesterol.
• Three billion pounds of chocolate is consumed by its lovers each year.
• It is reported that 9 out 10 people like chocolates and the tenth person is much likely lied!