Milk chocolate

Chocolat au lait

What it is

Daniel Peter spent eight years failing to combine milk and chocolate — the water in milk seizes cocoa butter. His neighbour Henri Nestlé had just invented condensed milk, and the two of them solved it in 1875 by removing the water first.

In the kitchen

It burns and seizes far more easily than dark. Melt it over water that is barely steaming, never simmering.

Goes with

Hazelnut Maple syrup Banana Almond Coffee Cream Salt Orange

Same species

Blond chocolate Cocoa mass Cacao pulp Cocoa butter Cocoa bean husk Cocoa nibs

Also used with

Pectin X58 Piedmont hazelnut Tie Guan Yin oolong Tombul hazelnut Hojicha Feuilletine

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