[CH] In Search of - - - A Mole Negro receipe
Jim Nelson (jmnelson@sbcglobal.net)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:48:58 -0700
Greetings pods
News update, first ripe Red Savina was found hiding in the bush today, a
sign that the season of El Grande in Northern California is upon me.
As I was out there identifying the chocolate habs and other new pods for
this year, LSS (long suffering spouse) has inquired again what I plan to
do with the unusual varieties this year ( yes a common question for us
all, but I digress). I calmly reported back that this year I plan to
make mole negro. LSS smiles knowingly having attempted this before and
discovered that it is frequently a day long process if one has twenty
odd years of experience and if not can be twice as long with
disappointing results. The gauntlet having thus been cast (and getting
a jar from the store and faking it out of the question . . . at least
for now), Does anyone have a coherent recipe they could share? For
those of you have been there I am aiming at an outcome similar to what
one can get , for example, at La Fuente in Tucson ( usual disclaimer
that I only wish I had a financial interest so I could convince them to
give me the recipe) and thus is quite dark and in the intermediate heat
range.