How To Make Chocolate Milk Without Chocolate Syrup

The grocery store is closed, you're craving chocolate milk and you don't have chocolate syrup on hand.

You may try to improvise by mixing cocoa powder and sugar into your milk.  Then mixing...and mixing...and mixing...still ending up with a glass of off-colored milk with cocoa lumps.  How do you get the cocoa to dissolve in the milk?  I'll tell you.

Mix the cocoa powder and sugar together first, then add just the tiniest splash of milk.  Mix hard until smooth.  Now slooowly add the rest of the milk while stirring.  Voila!  It's not as creamy as it would be using chocolate syrup, but still tasty and lump-free.

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