Friday, July 16, 2010

Bismuth More Drug_uses Cajetas

Ingers. But Were all three coconuts extracted after about half an hour. I soon Realized That It Should only take about a minute a coconut with a machete and good experience.
- Extract the coconut white part from inside the coconut. This part
Also Involves a knife. You Have to peel off the brown outer hard shell of the coconut And Then use a knife to shav off the thinner, and Soft, brown inner shell. I left this part to Trained professionals, ie people Who Have more experience with sharp knives Than I do.

- Shave the white coconut parts using a cheese grater.

This is the MOST time consuming part. & Nbrecliner ends in rocking chairs.

- Cool
Take your mixture from the fire, dump it onto a large wooden cutting board, and Proceed to burn your hands. Well, not me. My friend Slightly burned her hands forming the block of caramel

on the cutting board using Nothing But her hand a ziploc baggie with a bit of water to keep it cool. Let sit and cool for Another half of an hour .
- Cut

Now you take the finished block of caramel
and cut it Into small pieces. Into Place pieces Said a bag and you're ready to sell! We put threeto a bag with a total of 15 bags, which is quite a bit.  We'll be selling them for 450 colones a bag, which will bring in just under 8000 colones total.  Then we'll almost be halfway to our fundraising goal of 20,000 colones. 
 

Exhausted, with band-aids on my fingers, and sugar caked on my teeth from eating all the "discards" I went back to my house and took a nap, dreaming of the next time we're going to make
cajetas
, only the next time we're going to make it with powdered milk.  The word on the street (the one in my town) is that the ones made with powdered milk taste the best.  And the best part?  You don't need coconuts to make those kind, so my fingers

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