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It's cool enough in the evenings for hot chocolate here, especially with the three day long rain storm that is just ending.
I admit I've bought many a packet of Swiss Miss. It's simple: put the powder in a cup, add hot water (or milk if you insist) from the microwave, stir, and away you go. Someone at Conagra, the parent company, apparently noticed that in the real world people would rather have a coffee mug full of hot chocolate rather than a dainty tea cup full which is what their packets had long been designed for. Quote my sister, "I want a big mug of hot chocolate!" The old packets worked okay in mugs, though to make things a little richer, for years I'd tossed in a teaspoon of someone else's mint chocolate mix. Perfect. Just a hint of mint and not too sweet.
This year the packets have come designed for mugs, and ooh, it's not good. My spoon of mint chocolate made it taste like hot sugar water. The next night I skipped the addition and it was still too sweet. Not one to throw out chocolate, I went to the store and bought some old-fashioned Hershey's cocoa. I tried a third of a spoon of that in with the mix tonight. Success! Nice and chocolaty and not too sweet or too bitter. Probably by the time I'd buy packets again, Swiss Miss will have figured out their mistake and cut back on the sweetener. Till then I'm okay.
I admit I've bought many a packet of Swiss Miss. It's simple: put the powder in a cup, add hot water (or milk if you insist) from the microwave, stir, and away you go. Someone at Conagra, the parent company, apparently noticed that in the real world people would rather have a coffee mug full of hot chocolate rather than a dainty tea cup full which is what their packets had long been designed for. Quote my sister, "I want a big mug of hot chocolate!" The old packets worked okay in mugs, though to make things a little richer, for years I'd tossed in a teaspoon of someone else's mint chocolate mix. Perfect. Just a hint of mint and not too sweet.
This year the packets have come designed for mugs, and ooh, it's not good. My spoon of mint chocolate made it taste like hot sugar water. The next night I skipped the addition and it was still too sweet. Not one to throw out chocolate, I went to the store and bought some old-fashioned Hershey's cocoa. I tried a third of a spoon of that in with the mix tonight. Success! Nice and chocolaty and not too sweet or too bitter. Probably by the time I'd buy packets again, Swiss Miss will have figured out their mistake and cut back on the sweetener. Till then I'm okay.