Thirty Days of Thanks...

I am thankful for a bag of sugar. Yup, a 4-lb bag of sugar. (Have you noticed they aren't 5-lb bags anymore?) I ran out, and couldn't make chocolate syrup for the little Princess who lives here. Chocolate syrup is a must for milk, you know. So, on Monday morning, after JT's karate class, we headed to Aldi's. No way was I going into Wal-Mart for sugar and coming out with a buggy full of necessities (well, they'd be necessities to JT and Luci).
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But I couldn't find plain old white sugar! I found brown sugar and powdered sugar but no white sugar. Came home disappointed, and ready to explain the facts of life to Luci, as pertaining to chocolate syrup. Before having "the talk," I dug around in the cabinet for the third time and guess what I found? A bag of white sugar!
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Here's the recipe:

Better than Hershey's Chocolate Syrup

this is tweaked from the recipe that came with the Feingold materials.

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup water
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Mix sugar, cocoa, salt and water in saucepan. Heat until boiling, stirring constantly until everything dissolves. Remove from heat and add vanilla. When it has cooled down, pour into a clean chocolate syrup squeeze bottle.
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For a glass of chocolate milk, add 1-2 TBS syrup. Great on desserts and in coffee mochas, too.


If the syrup has little lumps in it, or develops a foamy top, strain it before storing. It only takes a second and makes everyone happier once it's on the ice cream.