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Easter Treats – Homemade and Boutique

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I love Easter Chocolate.  As a kid, I always remember it tasting so much better than the bargain stuff collected at Hallowe’en. While less in quantity, it still had the appeal of being “all yours’, to be squirrelled away and eaten sparingly in the weeks to come, or if you were a kid like me, devoured in a couple of days, not a box of chocolates doled out sparingly at the behest of an adult.

… except for the year our family dog jumped up on my bed and devoured my Cadbury’s chocolate hollow egg. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chocolatiers, Flavours and Textures, Special Occasions, Technique Tagged With: Beta5, Easater

Valentine’s Day

How on earth did a festival for a martyred saint, become inextricably associated with gifts of chocolate and expressions of romantic love?  Ah, history.

It turns out, there were actually three different martyred saints, with three different feast days, and we have that rock star of the High Middle Ages, author Geoffery Chaucer to blame (not really ) for the association with romantic love:

From Geoffery Chaucer’s “Parliament of Foules,”(1382) we have:

For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chocolatiers, Flavours and Textures, Special Occasions Tagged With: Beta5, Cocoa Nymph, Thomas Haas

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