So, the older Austrian lady told me that there is no such thing as Austrian cocoa.  When she was a little girl back in alte Oesterreich, she was the one mom put at the stove, stirring the milk while it came to a boil.  And her mother used plain old Dutch cocoa.

Normally I would heat the milk just short of boiling, whisk in the sugar and then the ( Read more... )

'Bout four inches on the ground, and still falling.  And it's wet, not powder, so everything has snow sticking to it, even the chain link fence between the yards, and the clothesline.

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