Chocolate Sundae Syrup

This recipe, the one our Mom used, produces, hands-down, the best-tasting chocolate sundae syrup I have ever enjoyed. I've been making it, myself, for nearly a half century. This sauce has a rich chocolate flavor and, despite the sugar, still retains a hint of dark chocolate overtones. And it's pretty simple to make.

Ingredients
1  Cup Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
4  Cups Granulated Sugar
¼ Teaspoon Salt

2  Cups Water
1  Teaspoon Vanilla

Directions
1. In a suitably-sized saucepan, combine first three (dry) ingredients thoroughly. Mixing the powder into the sugar helps it to dissolve when the water is added in the next step.
2. Add Water and Vanilla and stir to mix well.
3. Heat to boiling, mixing continuously.
4. Simmer for three minutes, stirring often.

Serve
Hot or cold, over ice cream or whatever comes to mind
Mix into hot or cold milk

Store
In refrigerator.

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Some like it hot

So the other morning, being a mite chilly here in Tucson, I decided to make some hot chocolate. Not hot cocoa, mind you; there’s a difference.

Hot chocolate is what you make from a powdered mix of chocolate, sugar and multitudinous other ingredients, like Nesquik or

HOLY GUACAMOLE!

STOP THE PRESSES!

I just discovered that the Hershey company has discontinued Hershey’s Chocolate Milk Mix! This is beyond incredible! It's right up there with New Coke.

Someone there in Hershey, Pennsylvania has been standing way too close to the chocolate-powdering machines without respiratory protection. What, for pity's sake, is going on?! Is nothing sacred?

This is just too sad to continue to write about. I’m going to go to bed and pull the covers up over my head.

No wonder I haven't been able to find it for months now. I thought I was just hitting the wrong grocery stores. I just don’t believe….

To protest this travesty, click here to go to Facebook.

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