I made chocolate for the first time.
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I made chocolate for the first time.
Ten years ago, I planted a seed that grew a tree that produced 3 pods that produced seeds that I fermented, dried, roasted, peeled, added sugar and ground into chocolate paste. It's delicious. The original tree where I sourced the seed that grew my tree was covered by lava in 2018.
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I made chocolate for the first time.
Ten years ago, I planted a seed that grew a tree that produced 3 pods that produced seeds that I fermented, dried, roasted, peeled, added sugar and ground into chocolate paste. It's delicious. The original tree where I sourced the seed that grew my tree was covered by lava in 2018.
#food #chocolate #foodforest #homesteadingIt didn't make a ton, so I'll probably grind it up with some of the macadamia nuts I got from my neighbor and make a lovely chocolate mac nut spread.
Curing mac nuts in the truck cab bc it's the driest place on the homestead. -
It didn't make a ton, so I'll probably grind it up with some of the macadamia nuts I got from my neighbor and make a lovely chocolate mac nut spread.
Curing mac nuts in the truck cab bc it's the driest place on the homestead.Macadamia nuts are *cough*difficult*cough* things to crack.
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Macadamia nuts are *cough*difficult*cough* things to crack.
@zl2tod I have the right tool for the job, albeit only one nut at a time.
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@zl2tod I have the right tool for the job, albeit only one nut at a time.
I refurbished a machine used for splitting bulk macadamia nuts once: two large counter-rotating steel wheels with circular hard and sharp blades around their circumferences. The nuts dropped one at a time between the blades. The nuts had to be sorted by size and the machine adjusted for each size.
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I made chocolate for the first time.
Ten years ago, I planted a seed that grew a tree that produced 3 pods that produced seeds that I fermented, dried, roasted, peeled, added sugar and ground into chocolate paste. It's delicious. The original tree where I sourced the seed that grew my tree was covered by lava in 2018.
#food #chocolate #foodforest #homesteading@saltphoenix this is so cool!!!!!!
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I refurbished a machine used for splitting bulk macadamia nuts once: two large counter-rotating steel wheels with circular hard and sharp blades around their circumferences. The nuts dropped one at a time between the blades. The nuts had to be sorted by size and the machine adjusted for each size.
@zl2tod sounds like work
all I do is
go thru and take all the husks off one at a time, then go back thru and shell them. One. At. A. Time.
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