This will go along with great with the previous post about milk.  Here is a recipe for homemade chocolate syrup that we made this very afternoon.  This can be used in anyway that you use hershey's, but for the price of 1 1/2 bottles, you can make over a dozen of your own.  This recipe does not come from me.  It comes from the Hillbilly Housewife and while she says this is just as good as hershey's, I must respectfully disagree; it is better.  Now, because links sometimes go down or computer's come on line in a mood, I am going to copy it to this post.   The original site is here.  She has some incredible ideas and recipes.

Chocolate Syrup

• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

• 1 cup tap water
  
• 2 cups sugar
  
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

   

Find a 2 quart saucepan.  In it, mix the cocoa and water with a wire whisk or fork. 

Heat the chocolate water over medium heat, stirring occasionally.  Add the sugar and continue to stir until the sugar dissolves.  Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil. 

 Reduce the heat to medium low and boil for a full 3 minutes.  Remove the syrup from the heat. 

Add the salt and vanilla, stirring to blend. 

Pour the syrup into a clean pint sized canning jar, or a clean catsup container.  Put a good lid on the jar and store it in the fridge.  Use this chocolate syrup to make chocolate milk, or serve it over ice-cream.  This is remarkably similar to Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in the can

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