[Sca-cooks] Chocolate truffles (OOP)

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Stefan wrote:

> Okay, time for a "Stefan" type question(s).
>
> These sound like they are a type of chocolate candy. What makes these
> a truffle and not some other kind of chocolate candy? The specific
> ingredients used? The shape?
>
> 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?

Exactly.  God created the truffle fungus, man emulated the fragrant fungus by
making chocolate delicacies in its image, brown, globular and delicious.  The
simplest of subtleties, if you will.

A truffle truffle?  Not this side of Iron Chef.

Selene, Caid