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Self-made Fair Trade Chocolate Truffles

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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CACAO with NO FREEBIES

What our Pure TABLEA doesn’t offer:

SUGAR……………………………………..….…………… NO!
DRY MILK ……………………………………..…… NO!
WHEY…………………………………………..……..…… NO!
CACAO PROCESSED WITH ALKALI ….……………… NO!
CORN SYRUP SOLIDS ….………………………….………..… NO!
PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL ….…… NO!
SALT ….…………………………………………….………..…… NO!
DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE ….…………………..……… NO!
CELLULOSE GUM ….…………………………………….… NO!
SODIUM CASEINATE ….………………………………..…… NO!
MONO & DIGLYCERIDES ….……………….……..………… NO!
NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOUR ….………….…… NO!
SOY LECITHIN ….…………………………………………… NO!
SILICON DIOXIDE ….…………………………………… NO!
TETRASODIUM PHOSPHATE……………..………..…… NO!
POLYSORBATE 60 ….………………………….……….……… NO!

What our Pure TABLEA does offer:

100% PURE CACAO
organically grown
&
hygienically processed

:)

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YUM YUM COCOA 可口可可

Half a tablet would do
半個夠晒數

Break cacao tablet into two
把可可片一為分為二

Pre-warm cup with boiling water (for best results)
先把杯用沸水加熱，效果更佳

Put half-tablet into a cup
放半片放于杯中

Pour a little boiling water to cover half-tablet
加少許沸水把可可片蓋過

Don’t let it swim in water
設勿讓它在水中游泳

Let half-tablet soak for 15 to 20 seconds
讓可可片泡十五到二十秒

Mash it into paste with teaspoon
用茶匙壓攪成糊狀

+ boiling water … a little at a time
加沸水， 一點兒地加…

+ sugar to taste
依隨口味加糖

+ milk or soy milk to neutralise natural acidity (optional)
中和可可天然酸味，可加奶或豆奶等

Voila
YUM YUM 可可

:)

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OUR TABLEA STORY (100 - 96 = 4)

Dug out this Tablea Story in an old email sent off to Jun, our dear Tablea producer at Kablon Farms, on 31 December 2007

> Here is our Tablea Story

> A friend who has an organic shop has taken 3 rolls from us to try to sell.
> Three days ago, I asked him how many he has sold.
> He said: one.

> From November 25 to now, we have gone to 9 market days:
> 5 Sunday Farmers’ Market Days from 9am to 5pm
> 4 days at Sai Kung Christmas Fair from 12 to 8pm.

> We had 100 rolls to start with.
> We sold only 3 or 4 on each of the first two market days,
> but sales picked up speed, and now we have only 4 left!

> You know why we have been able to sell so many?

> I have worked very hard to collect nutrition data about cocoa.
> And I have spent a lot of time to sort out the heap of info
> so that we can make a clear presentation to our customers,
> verbally as well as on a mini-poster.
> Our customers and potential customers have all been impressed.

> Two days ago I was invited to talk about Fair Trade
> at the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou City,
> the biggest agricultural university in China and in SE Asia, they say.
> Tablea is one of the few products I took along.
> It caught the students’ attention.

> Last night I was at a dinner party
> and there, too, I started ‘preaching’
> to some of the guests whom I have never met before …