Damn exactly at the title length limit.
Hot chocolate is:
- 1-2 TB butter
- Some flour ;) (roughly 0.5 TB) Browned and cooked together
- 0.75-1.25 cups Milk Stirred in quickly
- 2-4 TB Cocoa Powder
- Pinch salt (or more for salted chocolate)
- Sugar to taste And optionally (good w/o if you don't have)
- splash of vanilla
- some chocolate chips
- brandy? vodka? whiskey?
roux for hot chocolate?
Why not a cornstarch slurry?
That sounds more like pan gravy, imo.
does the flour/fat give it a savory taste?
cornstarch slurry has always ended up sort of grainy and lumpy for me. I am a big fan of this one salted browned butter chocolate bar I found over the Summer and generally like fattier sweets since I am diabetic and it blunts the impact too.