Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: ?ground mole? (admission of ignorance follows) Message-ID: <484@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 18:02:19 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.484 Posted: Wed Oct 30 18:02:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 07:30:39 EST References: <909@burl.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Distribution: net Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 26 > He followed the recipe exactly except >that he substituted 1/4 teaspoon Tabasco for 1/4 teaspoon Durkee's Louisianna >Hot Sauce, and used 1/4 cup regular flour instead of 1/4 cup Masa Harina (only >available in 5-lb. bag). Masa Harina is corn flour with lime, appropriate for making tortillas and the like. Wheat flour probably won't do. >The last exception was the omission of a small amount of ground mole ... > >Anyway, please respond and tell me how you pronounce the word (like >the animal or with an accent over the 'e'?) and what the hell it is. The word is Spanish, so the "e" at the end is sounded (molay). But mole is a sauce, not a spice. It's made from chiles and unsweetened chocolate - often the very hot poblano chiles. (Mole poblano is a *very* hot chicken dish. The sauce is a dark brown, and doesn't taste like it has chocolate in it - at least not the way most of us chocoholics expect it. Good, though!) Maybe they meant ground poblano? -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."