Search Results for: Cocoa paste partly defatted
in nearly all of my recipes i have at least a small amount of cocoa butter. i melt the cocoa butter, and then add the lecithin, stirring to incorporate. you can add it directly to your chocolate in your melanger, but i find it seems to behave better this way. likewise, for vanilla, i take a vanilla bean
, split it down the middle, scrap the seeds, and toss it all into the cocoa butter to steep for / - hour. longer is fine, shorter if you wish. scrap the vanilla bean again, and use the vanilla infused cocoa butter, seeds and all. and if you don't use cocoa butter?...
https://chocolatealchemy.com/blog/2013/06/20/ask-the-alchemist-39
"now, the color of the cocoa pod – red or green – does not mean much to either cocoa farmers or consumers," the same goes for shape. cocoa pods come ribbed, smooth, oblong, round. but the issue is that they are what are considered non-exclusive sets. to use an arbitrary example, sometimes you can get
of what you have, i'll give it a guess...but know, it's just that, and if it isn't one of the really distinctive morphotypes, a wild guess is all it will be. if it is one of the distinctive morphotypes, then it will be an educated guess. i did some brief searching on the g-engine and found haitian cocoa...
https://chocolatealchemy.com/blog/2015/05/14/ask-the-alchemist-115