[Sca-cooks] Favorite chocolate truffle recipe?

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

The other reason, according to something I read, sometime (great source, 
I know) is that, when the chocolate ones were invented, they were trying 
to think of a name - and chose the name truffle as indicating how rich 
and rare they were...  I suspect a certain visual resemblance helped the 
thought.

I come here to get away from chocolate, and what are you all talking 
about?? I sell the darn  things... *G*   OK, actually, this year I only 
did a few days of truffles. I've mostly worked for clients with cookies 
and other chocolates... (I freelance.) Anyhow, it means I have been 
paying attention to the history of chocolate for several years, because 
customers ask me, and I've never liked the "Uh, gee, I have no idea" 
approach to sales... I mean, I'll say it if I don't know, but I like to 
feel as if I know what I'm doing.

AEllin

Stefan li Rous wrote:

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>> So I suspect they're supposed, ideally, to
>> have a certain rustic, rough-hewn look to them.
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> Oh, like my idea of medieval cloth and clothing before I'd been in the 
> SCA a while.
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>> after all, they're supposed to look like truffles, aren't they?
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> Oh! I'd always wondered why the root fungus and the chocolate things 
> had the same name.
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