Self-made Fair Trade Chocolate Truffles

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15/130 Self-made Fair Trade Chocolate Truffles

Fair Trade Ingredients:
Tablea (Pure Cacao Tablets) 250g
Coco Sugar from Nectar 200g
Macobado Sugar 50g
Coco Jam 125g
Macapuno Preserve 125g
Virgin Coconut Oil 30ml
Ginger Tea Powder 10g
Turmeric Powder 2g

Natural Sea Salt 2g
Cashew Nuts (unsalted, slightly roasted) 100g
Desiccated Coconut 400g

Non Fair Trade Ingredient:
Organic Rolled Oats 100g

Preparation:
1.  Slightly brown Rolled Oats in pan.
2.  Slightly brown Cashew Nuts in pan and split into halves.
3. Melt Tablea tablets in pot. (Take care not to burn the cacao.)
4. Add Coco Sugar, Mascobado, Ginger Tea Powder, Turmeric, & Salt.
5. Mix and stir to form a thick paste, add a little water if necessary.
6. Add Coco Jam,  Macapuno Preserve, and Virgin Coconut Oil.
7. Mix and stir well.
8. Add Desiccated Coconut and split Cashew Nut and stir well.
9. Form into small balls with two teaspoons.
10. Roll in Desiccated Coconut and place in forms.
11. Store in freezer.
12. Serve chilled.

YUM :-)

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Our Mascobado Sugar

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What does ‘Mascobado’ mean?
How is your Mascobado Sugar made?
Is it organic?
Is it Fair Trade?

Time and again
I have been asked.
Here are the answers,
At long long last:

Mascobado comes from Spanish,
Meaning ‘raw’ or ‘unrefined’.
Ours is free of harmful chemicals
And rich in vitamins and minerals.

Our Mascobado is obtained
By evaporating juice from sugar cane,
A traditional method of production
In line with Filipino ancient notion.

Without centrifugal processing,
Nutritious molasses remains.
CERTIFIED ORGANIC by IMC,
It’s a FAIR TRADE product of PFTC.

*Panay Fair Trade Center, Oton, Iloilo, Philippines
A member of IFAT (Int’l Fair Trade Assn.)

Free-flowing Fine Mascobad Sugar

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Fine
Mascobado

Free-flowing
Organic sugar

One ton
Flowing

Freely
Via Fair-and-Healthy

From PH
To HK

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Ginger Tea Power at the Farmers’ Market

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Brrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrr
In freezy northerly breeze

Silly me in just a jumper no down no fleece
Could do nothing but freeze and freeze

Smart me grabbed a packet of Ginger Tea Powder
Opened a packet of Mascobado Sugar Dark

Borrowed a big kettle and a huge pot for tea
Borrowed the Market office for brewing

And In ten minutes came Ginger Tea Power
For freezy him and her and you and me

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