CHOCOLATE

Here is a simple recipe for home made chocolate which is a great favourite with my kids.

Ingredients.

1. Milk Powder 2 cups
2. Sugar 1 and 3/4th cups
3. Butter 1 cup should be soft should be kept outside the fridge for at least few hours.
4. Unsweetened cocoa powder 4 to 5 table spoons
5. Water 3/4Th cups

Method
Mix the soft (kola kola) butter, cocoa powder and milk powder well softly and keep it in a vessel.
Keep a metal tray or plate ready greased with butter.
Take a thick bottomed pan ( a pressure cooker can be used as it has thick bottom). add sugar and water and make it into a syrup. You have to boil it till you get the right consistency. The method to test this consistency is to put the syrup a drop or two in a small cup of water. you should be able to make a small ball out of the syrup with your fingers. (If not yet the right consistency the syrup will just dissolve in the water).
Now switch off the stove and put the milk powder, butter, cocoa powder mixture into the sugar syrup and stir thoroughly for about 5 to 7 minutes.
Pour this into the already greased tray . After fifteen minutes cut them into pieces with a buttered knife. This chocolate can be decorated with grated and slightly roasted almonds or cashew nuts or raisins. This should be added immediately after pouring into the tray.
Take out the pieces after it cools and eat it.