Brexit Bill Passed Unannounced in UK. Successful Milk Choc Recipe Using Concentrated Dried Milk Solution

Strange that the news of the Brexit Bill passing the final vote in the House of Commons by 29 votes features in Der Spiegel and CNN but not on the BBC News, Guardian or Daily Mail. Sky news mentioned it after midnight.

Apparently the bill is now being passed on to the Lords, where it will receive stiff discussion.

The Carillion catastrophe continues to dominate, with the possibility of the Bayeaux Tapestry visiting the UK second.

Completed reading and reviewing the part autobiography/part philosophy manuscript during the day and attended the Milton Photographic Club evening, discussion our website and what we might want.

Main success today, however, was another chocolate interlude. Having had some success trying to make milk chocolate with condensed milk saturated with sugar, without curdling, I tried a different tack starting with dried milk. I first prepared 100ml warm water with 40 g of dried milk. Added 30 milliliters of the milk to 70 g granulated sugar and warmed in a water bath to dissolve as much of the sugar as possible.

The chocolate mix was then prepared using melted 80 g cocoa liquor drops with 60 g cocoa butter and added 60 g of the saturated sugar milk and a teaspoon of orange essence oil. The warm mixture was allowed to cool with regular stirring until it became viscous as it began to set/crystallise. Reheated to 31 degC and then cast in moulds to set, either in praline form with a sultana or as a 100 g bar wth sultanas and halved hazelnuts. An hour later, the chocolate had a definite shine and a snap when bitten into.