Hot cocoa and a fresh bun with butter and slices of cheese stacked on top of each other - a sybarite breakfast. If there is slush outside the window, it is raining and clouds have tightened the sky, such food will energize and provide a good mood for the whole day.
Times change, but the Golden Label remains the same
Favorite “Golden Label” is cocoa, which is known to many generations of Russians. Cooking it is not as easy as tea or coffee, but the effort spent will be rewarded with happy smiles of the household. How to cook cocoa is written on its packaging. The most delicious drink is obtained only if it is one hundred percent cocoa bean powder. The "Golden Label", the composition of which was approved in Soviet times, has not yet changed and includes only cocoa powder and vanillin, there are no artificial additives. Reviews about this brand are always only positive and even enthusiastic.
Traditional way of cooking
How to make your favorite drink? For one serving, a glass of milk, one or two teaspoons of Golden Label cocoa, and two or three teaspoons of sugar are enough. In the process of preparation, the drink must be tasted. Before the cocoa boils, you can add sugar, if not sweet, or milk, if it turned out too hard. It is very important to strictly comply with the process:
- in a large metal saucepan with a round bottom and a long handle, rub the Golden Label cocoa with sugar;
- gradually, continuously stirring, pour in a quarter cup of hot milk;
- grind sugar, cocoa and milk until a homogeneous paste;
- in the same way, enter the remaining hot milk;
- bring to a boil and turn off.
According to connoisseurs, cocoa is most pleasant to drink from a large ceramic mug. In it, the drink remains hot longer.
Gourmet & Ascetic Drinks
Golden Label Cocoa Powder is the universal basis for a wide variety of chocolate drinks. It can be drunk not only hot in cloudy weather, but also chilled, with the addition of ice cream or cubes of milk ice. Instead of natural milk, you can use soy or nut. Several options for healthy and original drinks for connoisseurs are presented in this article.
Cocoa without milk
What if you really want to try a chocolate drink, and you are forbidden to drink milk? Golden Label cocoa powder, the composition of which has never been burdened with extraneous additives, allows you to brew a drink that is allowed for use during Orthodox fasts. Instead of milk, rice broth is used for it.
- 10 g of rice pour 300 ml of water and boil. Throw the cereal into a colander, and use the decoction for a drink.
- In a metal pan, grind 5 g of cocoa and 10 g of sugar, pour a little broth and mix well until pasty.
- Pour in the remaining broth, stirring the mixture until completely homogeneous. Bring to a boil.
Hot mocha with chocolate
The Golden Label is premium cocoa. The finest grinding makes it possible to experiment with various ingredients. The recipe is designed for a large company - about eight people.
- In a large metal saucepan, mix cocoa (1 cup), granulated sugar (1 cup), dry instant coffee powder (quarter cup), vanillin (1 sachet) and a pinch of salt.
- Bring to a uniform pasty state by pouring hot water in small portions (1 cup).
- Put on the fire and, constantly stirring, pour in hot milk (6 cups) and cream (2 cups).
- Bring to a boil and pour into circles.
Coffee with chocolate
- Take a metal stewpan, designed for at least three glasses of liquid. Dilute in it three tablespoons of sugar, the same amount of cocoa powder and three teaspoons of ground coffee with one glass of water. Bring to a boil.
- Boil three cups of hot milk of 1% fat separately. Carefully, constantly stirring, pour it into the saucepan and warm over medium heat, with constant stirring.
- Add vanillin. You do not need to boil.
- Pour into glasses and garnish with whipped cream.
Marshmallow Cocoa
This marvelous delicacy will have to tinker with.
- Soak for 15-20 minutes in half a glass of boiled water 25 g of gelatin.
- Separately, in a small saucepan, cook the syrup from one and a half glasses of sugar, corn syrup and a pinch of salt.
- When the sugar has dissolved, add heat and bring the syrup to a slightly caramel state: boil for 8 minutes, no more.
- Now you need to pour the caramel syrup into the dissolved gelatin, whipping with a mixer at low speeds. Increase speed gradually. The mass should become thick and uniform. It will take about 15 minutes to beat. At the very end, add vanillin to the mixture.
- Cover the baking sheet with foil or teflon paper, sprinkle it with powdered sugar and transfer the marshmallows into it. Smooth with a silicone spatula, sprinkle with powdered sugar and leave to solidify at room temperature overnight.
- The next day, remove the marshmallows from the baking sheet directly with paper, cut into square pieces and roll in icing sugar.
- Brew classic cocoa: take sugar, milk and Golden Label cocoa powder. The composition of the drink, as you see, is traditional. Additionally, nothing is needed. Make the cocoa according to the instructions on the box. You can use the recipe at the beginning of this article.
- At the bottom of a large glass, put chopped black confectionery chocolate, pour cocoa drink on it. Leave room to decorate with whipped cream foam. Put marshmallows on top and sprinkle lightly with grated chocolate.
This dessert is served hot so that the chocolate at the bottom melts.
Beneficial features
In the Soviet Union, it was believed that the "Golden Label" - cocoa for children or for people with poor health. Therefore, he entered the obligatory diet in kindergartens, schools, pioneer camps and sanatoriums. This is not surprising, because cocoa contains B vitamins (B 1 , B 2 , B 3 , B 6 and B 9 ), vitamins A, PP and E. It is a source of easily digestible iron, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, molybdenum, manganese, copper, fluorine and zinc.
Currently, there are numerous varieties of cocoa drinks widely represented in retail chains, which include sugar, milk powder, flavorings, flavor enhancers, preservatives, stabilizers and other additives. This greatly reduces the value of cocoa, because for better solubility, the cocoa powder is treated with ammonium carbonate, potash or baking soda, that is, it is prepared. This improves the taste of the drink and makes it readily soluble, but in return many of the healing properties of the product are lost. To prepare such a drink is a matter of a couple of minutes, and the “Golden Label” is unprocessed cocoa, that is, the beans were crushed, but not processed with any reagents. Everyone who cooked cocoa knows that it has a tendency to settle and cannot be mixed with milk without first grinding it with sugar.
Consumer Reviews
With the ubiquitous and, one might say, aggressive, implementation of instant fast-food products, the Golden Label cocoa remains a natural product. According to consumer reviews, cocoa factory "Red October", it can be considered our national pride. And although you need to tinker with cooking, the result is worth it. People note that the Golden Label cocoa powder is real, natural. He has a pronounced chocolate flavor. Consumers use it to make not only a fragrant drink, but also all kinds of desserts.