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Home-based business idea: How to make

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Make your own tablea from cocoa beans that are available in the market. Heres how.
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The Yuletide season is the time of the year when chocolates become more
popular. Filipinos have their own traditional chocolate treat---tsokolate or hot
chocolate drink, which is served perfectly along with bibingka, suman,
ensaimada, pandesal, or just about any bread or kakanin during Simbang Gabi,
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If most chefs and restaurants these days prefer to use powdered cocoa when Universities
making their hot chocolate drinks, it is not surprising that more local
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offer traditional hot chocolate in your food business menu, you should nd and Principles Everyone Can
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Tablea is a Spanish word that means tablet. Locally, the word refers to pure Shopping Mall Schedule for
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tablea is one of the signicant and interesting inuences of colonial Spain,

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There is a ourishing cacao industry in the country. Those who own and Business

maintain cacao farms should know how to make tablea, which can be sold in
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Cacao fruits should be harvested when ripe. The beans (or seeds) should be From Sunny Side Up to
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thoroughly cleaned before sun-dried for about two to three days. When the Businesses are Coping with
beans are completely dried, they can be stored for several more days or months Higher Ination

or can be used to make tablea. You may also nd and buy those dried cacao
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1. Roast dried cocoa beans in a pan until those turn very dark or until you How Kenneth Cobonpue
smell its chocolate aroma. Set the cooked beans aside to let them cool. Built on One, Big Lucky
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3. Put the beans into a grinder (you may use manual or electric grinder). This Paying Taxes
process will not just grind cacao beans; it would also release natural cocoa
butter, which will result to a thick and tar-like substance.

4. When grinding is done, scoop a tablespoon of ground cacao and form it into
a tablet or small ball. Set aside until it hardens, which happens when it cools
down.

You may now store your tablea or sell it in the market.

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