[Sca-cooks] Chocolate truffles (OOP)

[Terry Decker]

You might consider that the original word derives from the Latin vairant
"trufera" of the word "tuber" meaning "lump."   Since the confection
"truffle" is a ball or lump the name may hark back to the original meaning
or it may be as you suggest, a similarity to the fungii.

Bear


>> And I thought "truffles" were the mushroom things found on tree roots,
>> often hunted for with pigs. Am I wrong and those are called something
>> else? Is the chocolate one derived from the mushroom one?
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>I've often wondered that myself.  I guess they're small, round and very
>dark brown/black, so they look like the mushroom truffles.  Which, by
>the way, I found for sale at Wegman's the other day.  If Craig wasn't
>there to stop me, I think I would have bought just one to see what the
>big deal really is...
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>-Magdalena