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- From: jj@alice (Jim Johnston)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate Fudge
- Message-ID: <2592@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 26 Apr 86 21:39:05 GMT
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- Organization: Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE FUDGE-1 D "22 Nov 85" 1986
- .RZ "CHOCOLATE FUDGE" "Rich fattening chocolate fudge"
- This recipe makes fudge. Not fudge brownies, just fudge.
- I'm not sure what else to say about it.
- .IH "Makes 1 8-inch pan" "Makes 1 20-cm pan"
- .IG "2 cups" "sugar" "400 g"
- (granulated)
- .IG "1 cup" "condensed milk" "225 ml"
- (unsweetened!)
- .IG "2 \(12 Tbsp" "butter" "40 g"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "salt" "1 g"
- .IG "2 oz" "unsweetened chocolate" "50 g"
- (I use Hershey's baking chocolate. Bakers chocolate does NOT work)
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "corn syrup" "15 ml"
- (light)
- .IG "1 cup" "walnuts" "300 g"
- (chopped)
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla extract" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "rum" "15 ml"
- (I use Stroh's Inlander rum)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Combine sugar, condensed milk, butter, salt, chocolate, and corn syrup
- in a HEAVY
- .AB "3-quart" "3-liter"
- saucepan. Heat slowly.
- .SK 2
- Stir until everything is melted. When the chocolate is melted
- thoroughly, beat with electric mixer (I ain't proud!) until smooth.
- .SK 3
- Let cook to halfway between soft and medium ball stage (use candy
- thermometer if available)
- .SK 4
- Let cool until barely touchable. (due to heat)
- .SK 5
- Stir in chopped walnuts, vanilla, and rum.
- Beat the mixture until it starts to set.
- .SK 6
- When it \fIstarts\fR to set, get it into
- .AB "an 8-inch" "a 20-cm"
- square pan.
- (buttered, of course) If you wait to do this, you will eat it out of the
- saucepan.
- .NX
- This is guaranteed to cause obesity if over-indulged in.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- Moderate to hard. Melted chocolate is tricky, and the timing is fairly
- important.
- .I Time:
- about an hour.
- .I Precision:
- Measurement important for some ingredients.
- .WR
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- Jim Johnston
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