text: Real cacao, real sugar, simmered into a real old fashion hot chocolate sip. Freezing cold winters never tasted so yummy.
  Hot Chocolate In The Snow
  Old Fashion
  At my age, I qualify to tell you exactly how an old fashion hot chocolate drink is made. I didn’t grow up with ‘scoop out’ containers or ready to-go hot chocolate mix.
  Have you ever looked at the ingredients on one of those ‘just add hot water’ mixes for hot chocolate? I’d bet you don’t know what many of the ingredients are.
  Easy Real Hot Chocolate
  Old fashion hot chocolate simply means it’s made from scratch. From real chocolate, the real way. If you’ve ever had hot chocolate made from scratch, you know how rich and delicious it is.
  Real Hot Chocolate
  The best real hot chocolate is made from cacao, not cocoa. What’s the difference? Process. Cocoa is more highly processed and in the process, has lost some of its nutritional properties and flavor.
  Cacao, since it has not been roasted as cocoa has, it maintains many of its natural, healthful ingredients, such as protein, fiber and iron. The taste also, is richer.
  Real Cacao
  Old Fashion Made Simple
  The most basic cup of hot chocolate is made with a tablespoon of cacao powder and a little sweetener. Other than water or milk, that is basically it.
  Milk of Choice
  I’ve always used a little sugar, real sugar, not white bleached sugar, when making old fashion hot chocolate, and by a little, I mean about a teaspoon with one tablespoon of cacao.
  Raw Sugar vs Bleached Sugar
  Warm the two with a drizzle of water, just to form a syrup and the rest becomes a matter of liquid choices.
  Boiling water, or warmed milk of any type is added to the cacao syrup and it’s ready to pour into a cup and sip.
  Hot Chocolate Mixed
  Is Chocolate Enough?
  For me, chocolate is enough. For other’s, marshmallows, whipped cream, shaved chocolate, cinnamon, or nutmeg, even a little chocolate liquor can be added just before sipping.
  Shaved Chocolate
  Chocolate, though, is really the star of this drink, so anything else added is entirely up to the one sipping!
  Hot Sips On A Freezing Day
  While tea or coffee is what I sip most often, today, an unusual snow day here in Maryland, this day needed something really special. Hot Chocolate!
  Snowbound. Ten inches on a long driveway and I wasn’t going anywhere, any time soon. I called our summertime lawn-care people and they jumped at the chance to come clear my driveway.
  Three guys, looking very frozen, clearing my driveway. They needed a special treat. I knew exactly what they needed. Just so happened I had all the ingredients and a stack of to-go cups too.
  When the job was done and I could once again see my driveway, I quickly went out to give them my special old fashion hot chocolate drink. Their faces lit up when I told them what it was, just as my grandchildren’s faces do when I make it for them.
  Snow Day Hot Chocolate
  Ingredients Needed
  Cacao powder
  Sugar
  Water
  Milk (any type)
  Whipped cream (optional)
  Chocolate square (optional)
  Old Fashion Hot Chocolate
  Equipment Needed
  Kettle
  Small saucepan
  Measuring cup
  Measuring spoons
  Whisk
  Grater (optional)
  Stovetop or burner
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  Real Old Fashion Hot Chocolate
  Recipe by Robin DaumitCourse: DrinksCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
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  Real cacao, real sugar, simmered into a real old fashion hot chocolate sip.
  Ingredients
  Cacao powder – 1 tbsp
  Sugar – 1 tsp or to taste or sweetener of choice
  Boiling water – 8 oz
  Milk – 1/4 cup, any type of milk
  Whipped cream – 1 tsp, (optional)
  Shaved chocolate – pinch (optional)
  Directions
  Have boiling water in a kettle ready. In a small saucepan, place the cacao powder, sugar, 1/4 cup of the boiling water and the milk. Heat until the sugar dissolves.
  Add the remaining boiling water, stir and transfer to serving cup.
  Whipped cream and shaved chocolate can be added just before serving, if using.
  Real Old Fashion Hot Chocolate
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  I am all about the gratification of the senses, and so I have become passionate about capturing the stimuli for my senses through videography and photography. Food provides some of the most alluring subject matter to capture on film, and videography does what a still shot can not do: capture sound. When you hear something sizzling, or pouring, your taste buds and sense of smell are already engaged.
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