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mixture into the creamed mixture. Finally, add a
cup of white chocolate chips. Gently mix together. Drop rounded spoonfuls of the
dough onto the prepared cookie
sheets. Bake for eight to 10 minutes in a pre-heated oven until
id you know that the ancient Aztec Indians of Mexico
puffy and soft. Allow the cookused cacao beans as money?
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We write with nibs, right? But a nib is also a name given to the
for about five minutes before
removing
cocoa pods after they are heated and shelled.
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The fat obtained from the beans, when grounded, is called cocoa butwire rack
ter. White chocolate is made of milk, sugar and cocoa butter
to cool.
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but have no actual cocoa solids. So technically, white chocolate is not
chocolate at all.
Powdered nibs and cocoa butter produce a dark chocolate liquid, which
is used in making chocolate for baking and for cocoa.
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iscover the connection between
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uman beings may have as many as 12 babies in a lifetime, dogs can have eight to
nine pups at a time. Fish, frogs and insects
can lay thousands of eggs in a lifetime. But the
mother which lays the most eggs in a lifetime is a
termite mother – she can lay as many as 30,000
eggs in a day!
The longest-living creature in the world of insects is also the termite queen. She has been
known to live for over 50 years. Calculate the
number of eggs she can lay in a lifetime. Over half
a billion!
1, 000,000,000 is a billion; what is half of that?
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