Volume 12 , Issue 49

Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Cream Fudge

This week's Home Comfort Coobook of 1934 comes from page 129, for Cream Fudge and some variations.

Cream Fudge
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup rich milk
1 Tablespoon butter

Put milk and sugar into a saucepan, and set to boil; cook until syrup forms a soft ball when tested in cold water; add butter, take from fire, and beat steadily to a thick cream; pour into a well-buttered square pan, and when nearly cool, cut into small squares with a buttered knife.

If you like cocoanut, marshmallow, fruit, chocolate, then these variations might be your cup of creamy fudge.

Cocoanut Cream Fudge -- Follow recipe for Cream Fudge; add 1 cup finely shredded cocoanut during last half of beating; flavor with 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Marshmallow Cream Fudge -- Follow recipe for Cream Fudge; add 10 average marshmallows beaten to a cream; mix during last half of beating. Fruit Cream Fudge -- Follow recipe for Cream Fudge; add 1 cup finely chopped or ground dates, figs and nutmeats while beating.

Chocolate Cream Fudge -- Follow recipe for Cream Fudge; add 2 ounces (2 squares) bitter chocolate to milk and sugar in beginning, melting chocolate first.

Layer Cream Fudge -- Prepare and pour into a buttered pan in a shallow layer, any one of the above fudges; pour onto this a layer of different colored or flavored fudge; follow with third layer if desired. This makes an excellent fudge for parties.

Rich Chocolate Fudge -- 3 cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup rich milk, 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 cake chocolate. melt chocolate in a pan, and add butter, milk and sugar in order named and boil; when it will form a soft ball when tested in cold water, remove from fire; let cool a little and beat until thick; pour into a buttered shallow pan, cut into small squares and let cool.

Chocolate Nut Fudge -- Follow recipe for Rich Chocolate Fudge; add and stir in 3/4 cup chopped nut meats just after removing from fire.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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