"Golden label" (cocoa powder): composition and reviews

Hot cocoa and a fresh bun with butter and cheese plates, overlapping each other, is a breakfast of sybarite. If there is a slush outside the window, rain drizzles and the clouds tightly tightened the sky, such food will energize and provide a good mood for the whole day.

Times change, and the "Golden Label" remains the same

Favorite "Golden label" is cocoa, which many generations of Russians know well. Cook it is not as simple as tea or coffee, but the effort will be rewarded with satisfied smiles of household members. How to cook cocoa is written on its packaging. The most delicious drink is obtained only if it is a 100% cocoa bean powder. The "Golden Label", whose composition was approved back in Soviet times, has not changed to this day and includes only cocoa powder and vanillin, there are no artificial additives. Reviews about this brand are always only positive and even enthusiastic.

Traditional way of cooking

How to prepare a favorite drink? For one serving, a glass of milk, one or two teaspoons of cocoa "Golden Label" and two or three teaspoons of sugar are enough. During the preparation of the drink should taste. Before cocoa boils, you can add sugar, if not sweet, or milk, if it's too hard. It is very important to precisely observe the technological process:

• In a large metal saucepan with a round bottom and a long handle, rub the cocoa "Golden Label" with sugar-sand;
• Gradually, continuously stirring, pour a quarter cup of hot milk;
• Rinse the sugar, cocoa and milk until a homogeneous paste;
• In the same way, enter the remaining hot milk;
• Bring to a boil and turn off.

According to the connoisseurs, cocoa is most pleasant to drink from a large ceramic mug. In it, the drink lasts longer than hot.

Drinks for gourmets and ascetics

Cocoa Powder "Golden Label" is a universal base for the mass of a variety of chocolate drinks. It can be drunk not only hot in cloudy weather, but also chilled, with the addition of ice cream or cubes of milk ice. Instead of natural milk, you can use soy or nut. Several options for useful and original drinks for connoisseurs are presented in this article.

Cocoa without milk

How to be, if you really want to taste a chocolate drink, and you are forbidden to drink milk? Cocoa powder "Golden Label", the composition of which has never been burdened with extraneous additives, allows you to cook a drink that is allowed to be consumed during Orthodox fasts. For him, instead of milk, use a rice decoction.

• 10 grams of rice, pour 300 ml of water and cook. Pull the rump into a colander, and use a decoction for the drink.
• In a metal saucepan, grind 5 g of cocoa and 10 g of sugar, pour a little broth and stir well until a pasty state.
• Pour in the remaining broth, stirring the mixture to a state of complete uniformity. Bring to a boil.

Hot mocha with chocolate

"Golden label" is a premium cocoa. The finest grinding makes it possible to experiment with various ingredients. The given recipe is designed for a large company - about eight people.

• In a large metal saucepan, mix cocoa (1 cup), sugar (1 cup), dry instant coffee powder (a quarter cup), vanillin (1 sachet) and a pinch of salt.
• Bring to a homogeneous pasty state, pouring in small portions hot water (1 cup).
• Put on the fire and, stirring constantly, pour hot milk (6 glasses) and cream (2 cups).
• Bring to a boil and spill the mugs.

Coffee with chocolate

• Take a metal saucepan, calculated at least three glasses of liquid. Dissolve in it three tablespoons of sugar, the same amount of cocoa powder and three teaspoons of ground coffee with one glass of water. Bring to a boil.
• Separately boil three glasses of hot milk 1% fat. Carefully, constantly stirring, pour it into the saucepan and warm it over medium heat, with constant stirring.
• Add the vanillin. It is not necessary to boil.
• Pour over the glasses and decorate with whipped cream.

Cocoa with marshmallow

Over this wonderful delicacy will have to tinker.

• Soak for 15-20 minutes in half a glass of boiled water 25 g of gelatin.
• Separately, in a small saucepan, boil the syrup from a half cup of sugar, corn syrup and a pinch of salt.
• When the sugar dissolves, add the fire and bring the syrup to a slightly caramel state: boil for about 8 minutes, no more.
• Now you need to pour the caramel syrup into the dissolved gelatin, whipping with a mixer at low speed. Increase the speed gradually. The mass should become thick and homogeneous. The whipping will take 15 minutes. At the very end, mix vanillin with the mixture.
• Cover the baking tray with foil or Teflon paper, densely sprinkle with powdered sugar and transfer the marshmallow billet into it. Smooth with a silicone spatula, sprinkle with powdered sugar and leave to freeze at room temperature for the night.
• The next day, take the marshmallow from the baking tray straight with the paper, cut into square pieces and roll in powdered sugar.

• Cook the classic cocoa: take sugar, milk and cocoa powder "Golden Label". The composition of the drink, as you can see, is traditional. Additionally, nothing is needed. Cook the cocoa in accordance with the instructions written on the box. You can use the recipe at the beginning of this article.
• At the bottom of a large glass, put chopped black confectionery chocolate, pour on it a cocoa drink. Leave space to decorate with foam from whipped cream. Top with marshmallow and lightly sprinkle with grated chocolate.

This dessert is served hot, so that the chocolate melts at the bottom.

Beneficial features

In the Soviet Union it was believed that the "Golden Label" was cocoa for children or for people with weakened health. Therefore, he was included in the mandatory diet in kindergartens, schools, pioneer camps and sanatoriums. This is not surprising, because cocoa contains vitamins B (B1, B2, B3, B6 and B9), vitamins A, PP and E. It is a source of easily digestible iron, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, Sulfur, sodium, chlorine, molybdenum, manganese, copper, fluorine and zinc.

Currently, numerous variants of cocoa beverages are widely represented in the trade networks, which include sugar, milk powder, flavors, flavor enhancers, preservatives, stabilizers and other additives. This greatly reduces the value of cocoa, because for better solubility the cocoa powder is treated with ammonium carbonate, potassium or baking soda, that is, dissolve. This improves the taste of the drink and makes it easily soluble, but in exchange many of the medicinal properties of the product are lost. Prepare such a drink - a matter of a couple of minutes, and the "Golden Label" - cocoa unprepared, that is, the beans were crushed, but not processed by any reagents. Everyone who cooks cocoa knows that it tends to settle and it can not be mixed with milk without rastering with sugar.

Customer Reviews

With ubiquitous and, it can be said, aggressive, introduction of fast-dissolving products of the fast food class, cocoa "Golden Label" remains a natural product. According to consumers, the cocoa factory "Red October", it is quite possible to consider our national pride. And although you need to tinker with cooking, the result is worth it. People note that the cocoa powder "Golden Label" is a real, natural. He has a pronounced chocolate taste. Consumers use it to make not only a fragrant drink, but also all sorts of desserts.