CHAPTER NINE + + + CHOCOLATE AND LIP AND BREAD+ + + POLYRHYTHMIA

The first step is to toast the chocolate beans. It’s good to use the metal pan rather than an earthenware griddle since the pores of the griddle soak up the oil the beans give off. It’s very important to pay attention to this sort of details, since the goodness of the chocolate depends on three things, namely: that the chocolate beans used are good and without defect, that you mix several types of beans to make the chocolate, and finally the amount of toasting.
It’s available to toast the cocoa beans just until the moment they begin to give off oil. If they are removed from the heat before then, they will make a discoloured and disagreeable looking chocolate, which will be in- digestible besides. On the other hand, if they left on the heat too long, most of beans will be burned, which will make the chocolate bitter and acrid.
Tita extracted just half of teaspoon of this oil to mix with sweet almond oil for an excellent lip ointment. Her lips always chapped every winter, no matter what precautions she took. When she was a child, this caused her considerable discomfort; whenever she laughed the fleshy part of her lips would crack open and bleed, producing a sharp pain. In time she grew resigned to this. Now that she didn’t have a lot of reasons to laugh, it no longer concerns her. She could wait patiently for spring for the crack disappears. The only reason she was making the pomade was that same quests were coming to the house tonight to share the kings day bread.
Break up the yeast in a quarter of kilo of flour using your hand or fork and adding half a cup of warm milk a little at time. When the ingredients are well blended, knead briefly, from into a ball and let rest, until the dough grows to double it size.
Just as Tita was putting the dough to rest, Rosaura made her appearance in the kitchen. She came to ask Tita’s help in carrying out the diet john a bad prescribed for he. For some weeks now , she had been having serious digestive problems, she had been having serious digestive problems, she suffered from flatulence and bad breath.