{"id":9147,"date":"2011-02-10T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2011-02-10T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:05:11","slug":"woof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=9147","title":{"rendered":"Woof!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was making chocolate bark\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0for a couple of my long-distance Valentines when I realized that I had never posted my bark recipe on this blog. The omission\u00a0HAD to\u00a0be rectified! Chocolate bark is one of the easiest and most popular gift treats in my kitchen.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I was given the recipe by my neighbor in Hawley, Massachusetts, Philip Keenan. Phil is a selectman, a chef, and a builder\u2014and he\u2019s good at all three jobs. I made the bark a few years back on a Valentine\u2019s Day broadcast on my local public-radio station.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In case you\u2019d care to listen, here\u2019s the link<\/a>, courtesy of WFCR. (My favorite baritone, Don Freeman, and my favorite\u00a0pianist, Alice Parker,\u00a0joined me in the serenade at the end. I couldn’t let Valentine’s Day go by without a love song!)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Feel free to vary this recipe. Tiny jelly beans make nice filler at Easter, and crushed candy canes are Christmas-y, but the cranberries and almonds are my favorite add-in.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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As I said on the broadcast, I recommend using the highest quality chocolate you can get. If you can\u2019t handle three double boilers, just use two kinds of chocolate as I did in the picture below\u00a0and on the radio.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Do not double the recipe unless you have two cookie sheets. I tried doing it on one sheet\u00a0this week. Although I\u2019m sure my Valentines won\u2019t complain (well, I hope<\/em> they won\u2019t complain) I thought the layer of chocolate was too thick for optimal flavor and texture.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Have fun!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sweetheart Chocolate Bark<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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butter as needed
\n1\/2 to 1 cup blanched almonds (according to your taste)
\n1\/4 teaspoon salt
\n1\/2 to 1 cup dried cranberries (again, to taste)
\n1\/3 pound milk chocolate
\n1\/3 pound dark chocolate
\n1\/3 pound white chocolate<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Butter a cookie sheet. Place the almonds on it, and toast them in a preheated 350-degree oven for 8 minutes. Toss the almonds around on the sheet, sprinkle the salt on them, and toast for an additional 2 minutes.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Remove the nuts from the oven, and put them on a paper towel to drain and cool. When they are cool, sprinkle them on a parchment- or silicone-covered cookie sheet. Sprinkle the cranberries on as well.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In each of three separate double-boiler pans (or their equivalent), boil an inch or two of water. While the water is coming to a boil, separately chop the milk, dark, and white chocolate into fairly uniform pieces. Place each chocolate in a pan on the top of one double boiler, turn off the heat below the boiled water, and stir the chocolates as they melt.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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When the chocolates have melted, place alternating teaspoonsful of each on top of the cranberries and almonds. Swirl or splatter them together to make a pleasing pattern. Set the chocolate aside to cool and harden. (Do not refrigerate it.) This is best when eaten within 48 hours.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Makes 16 large or 32 small pieces of bark.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I was making chocolate bark\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0for a couple of my long-distance Valentines when I realized that I had never posted my bark recipe on this blog. The omission\u00a0HAD to\u00a0be rectified! Chocolate bark is one of the easiest and most popular gift treats in my kitchen. \u00a0 I was given the recipe by my neighbor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[1414,1417,1416,1415,1413,401,1418],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}