Chocolate liquor
 Chocolate liquor wafers | |
| Alternative names | Cocoa liquor, cocoa paste, cocoa mass |
|---|---|
| Type | Chocolate |
| Main ingredients | Cocoa beans |
Chocolate liquor, also called cocoa liquor, paste or mass, is pure cocoa in liquid or semi-solid form.[1] It is produced from cocoa bean nibs that have been fermented, dried, roasted, and separated from their skins. The nibs are ground to the point cocoa butter is released from the cells of the bean and melted, which turns cocoa into a paste and then into a free-flowing liquid.[2]
The liquor is either separated into (non-fat) cocoa solids and cocoa butter, or cooled and molded into blocks, which can be used as unsweetened baking chocolate. Like the nibs from which it is produced, it contains both cocoa solids and cocoa butter in roughly equal proportion.[3] Its main use (often with additional cocoa butter) is in making chocolate.
The name liquor is used not in the sense of a distilled, alcoholic substance, but rather the older meaning of the word, meaning 'liquid' or 'fluid'.
Chocolate liquor contains roughly 53 percent cocoa butter (fat), about 17 percent carbohydrates, 11 percent protein, 6 percent tannins, and 1.5 percent theobromine.[4]
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Manually ground cocoa -
Cocoa turning into a paste in a melanger -
Fully ground cocoa exiting from a cocoa mill -
Tempered and molded cocoa liquor
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21". Databases. United States: Food and Drug Administration. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- ^ Afoakwa, Emmanuel Ohene (2016). Chocolate Science and Technology. Wiley. p. 111.
Grinding of nib cells releases the cocoa butter into liquor with particle size up to 30 μm
- ^ Stevens, Molly (January 2001). "Sorting Out Chocolate". Fine Cooking. No. 42. Taunton Press. pp. 74, 76. ISSN 1072-5121. Archived from the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
- ^ Wolke, Robert L. (2005). What Einstein Told His Cook 2, The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science (Hardcover). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 433. ISBN 0-393-05869-7. [1]
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