July 3

Saturday, we spent the day making real homemade chocolate from cocao beans. We roasted and peeled them; then ground them many times. Cooked it with a double boiler and added butter and sugar. It is the most amazing tasting raw chocolate ever. I made a chocolate cake from scratch that I baked in a homemade fire-burning cob oven. Another person made chocolate/peanut butter ice cream. We had a potluck dinner that night and it was really nice.