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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Distribution: world
From: DJ Delorie <dj@ctron.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 91 17:34:52 EST
Subject: LACTO: Fudge
Summary: orig. subject:
Archive-Name: recipes/lacto/fudge
Keywords: recipe lacto fudge
Followup-To: rec.food.veg
Organization: ?
Approved: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
Fudge
Ingredients for a small plate full:
2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon corn syrup or honey
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
* Put the sugar, cocoa, and salt into a *big* saucepan. Fudge will
expand to up to four times its volume while cooking. Mix.
* Add cream a little at a time, mixing as you go, until all cream is
added. Mix well.
* Add milk, syrup or honey, and butter.
* Cook mixture on high, stirring constantly, until it begins to boil.
* Reduce heat until the mixture is merely bubbling. If too hot, mixture
will expand and boil over. If too cool, mixture will not bubble.
A slow, rolling boil is optimal. Cooking time begins at this stage.
* Line a 9x13 or 8x11 pan with tin foil, being careful not to puncture
the foil. Make sure foil is smooth in pan.
* After mixture has cooked for about 15 minutes, begin testing it
every five minutes. If recipe is doubled, double cooking time as well!
Total cooking time is about 30-45 minutes for single batch. To test:
* Fill a tall clear glass with cold tap water.
* Drop a few drops of the mixture into the glass from just above the
water surface.
* As the mixture cooks, the drops will begin to appear less flattened
on the bottom of the cup.
* When the drop's height is at least half its width, the fudge is done.
* Make sure you rinse and re-fill the glass before each test.
* Remove from heat, add vanilla, and mix.
* Allow mixture to cool for a while.
* Stir mixture violently until it loses its shiny appearance and begins
to stiffen.
* Pour mixture into foil-lined pan and cool in refrigerator overnight.
* Remove fudge from pan by lifting foil. If fudge hasn't hardened,
Return to pan and cook some more.
* Place fudge foil up on a cutting board and peel foil off. Cut with
large knife by pressing knife into fudge (slicing doesn't work).
Options:
Instead of cocoa, add 1/2 cup peanut butter *after* cooking
Add 1/2 cup walnuts after cooking
Omit cocoa and cook longer for caramel flavor (will harden
quickly - pour into foil right after removing heat)