<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a small history of chocolate</h1>
Before 2000 BC, Mexicans were the first to cultivate cocoa beans, and they made the cultivated cocoa beans into drinks and drank them during worship to the gods.
It's hard to imagine that Mexicans at the time would add chili peppers to this drink and turn it into a drink that is extremely stimulating to the taste buds. It makes it difficult for anyone who first tries this drink to feel delicious in it.
In the sixteenth century, this drink spread to Spain, just when Spain planted sugar cane in the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, so that the Spaniards could eat sugar, they added sugar to the cocoa drink, sugar neutralized the bitterness and spiciness of the cocoa, highlighting its mellowness.
Political marriages accelerated the spread of cocoa drinks from Spain to the French court. It spread to Britain and Europe, and over time moved to the whole world, from the royal palace to the people.
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The appearance of solid chocolate was many years after the advent of cocoa drinks. According to records, in 1659, the first solid chocolate appeared in Britain, and it was only in the eighteenth century that chocolate ingredients were added to desserts to make snacks.
I've posted a previous article: Introductory Ingredients for Baking (Other) that describes the ingredients of chocolate.
Both chocolate and cocoa powder are made from cocoa beans. Cocoa beans grow on trees and are plucked. Cocoa beans undergo a series of fermentation, roasting, grinding and processing to obtain cocoa pulp. Cocoa paste includes cocoa and cocoa butter (i.e., the grease of the cocoa slurry). Cocoa slurry is a powder made from dryness after removing part of the cocoa grease. The chocolate commonly used in our baking is bitter chocolate, also known as sugar-free chocolate, which is made from pure cocoa syrup. It is sugar-free, has a strong bitter taste, and is often made into lumps, so it is also called cocoa blocks. Other chocolates are based on bitter chocolate with milk or sugar added, and the purity is not as high as bitter chocolate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > brownies' little history</h1>
Then there is the brownie made with bitter chocolate as the main condiment, it is a classic American dessert, and it is said that brownie's invention was an unexpected product of the baking process.
The story takes place in the United States, in an ordinary family. Grandma was in the kitchen, wearing an apron, baking chocolate cake for the family. Grandma was old enough to make the cake and forgot to beat the eggs and sugar together, but instead added them all together and stirred them all. I didn't expect such a careless act, but unexpectedly got a delicious cake, which became a well-known American representative dessert all over the world.
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Brownie is a representative American family dessert in the middle of a cookie and a cake. Brownie cakes don't need to prepare much material and are very simple to make.
Just put all the ingredients together to stir well, bake on it, it has the characteristics of thick taste, easy to eat, etc., unlike the French dessert shape exquisite production complex, it is more in line with the modern, fast-paced, practical characteristics of American food. But the taste is not discounted at all! Here's how it's made, and I'll talk about how to make a simple snack tall!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the recipe and steps to make a brownie</h1>
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<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > preparation materials:</h1>
50g dark chocolate, 60g unsalted butter, 1 egg (medium size), 50g sugar, 40g low flour, 10g cocoa powder, 50g walnuts (or no addition), baking time: Bake at 180 degrees on high heat for 25 to 30 minutes.
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(1) Melt the prepared chocolate pieces together with butter and stir well with a spatula, in a silky chocolate state.
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Heating 70 ~ 80 degrees to melt the pig roast house DIY
(2) Add sugar to the egg and heat it to 80 degrees, stir well.
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(3) Add sifted flour and cocoa flour to the egg and sugar batter.
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Stir well Pig Roast House DIY
(4) Pour the chocolate and butter mixed in the first part into the egg sugar flour mixture mixed in the previous step and stir well. If you want to add dried fruit, you can add it at this time and mix well.
(5) Pour into a mold that has been pasted with baking paper, bake at 180 degrees above and below for 25 to 30 minutes.
(6) Bake the chocolate cake to cool and then cut into pieces.
Whenever you mention a classic brownie, you will be surprised by chocolate. Therefore, the quality of dark chocolate affects the taste of brownie chocolate, in addition to the more important is butter, the choice of natural animal butter is better, in short, try to choose good quality ingredients to make, in order to be more delicious. Chocolate can choose 50% black or 70% black. The formula can also be appropriately reduced sugar and adjusted to a unique formula that suits your taste.
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My favorite thing is to add walnuts to brownies, and it is also possible to add other dried fruits, depending on personal preference.
A good brownie should be crisp on the outside like a cookie and wet like a sponge cake in the middle.
Before eating the roasted brownies, it is more delicious to warm them up slightly in the oven. If you put a vanilla ice cream ball on the surface, it is a very authentic American way to eat. This way of eating adds a lot of layers to the texture of the heavy chocolate brownie and is very recommended.
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