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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
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Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
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 Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 08:10:56 AM
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Does anyone have a recipe for a sorta milk chocolatey fudge that is made with real cream? I had the recipe but simply cannot find it. It was an old recipe, too, and didn't have many ingredients, but I remember it used real cream, and cocoa for the chocolate part. I also remember that it made a fairly small batch, probably 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 pan. I wouldn't mind a larger recipe, though.
I'd appreciate any help. Trying to get my recipes in order for the holidays and fudge is a biggie around here - now I'm in dire straits without my best recipe! 
-Deb
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Hosanna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Hosanna
Alton
Virginia
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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 08:21:05 AM
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I think I have that one - it comes on the back of the jars of marshmallow creme, right?
This one is different and calls for cocoa rather than using chocolate chips and has real cream.
Thanks for reminding me about the other fudge, though!
-Deb
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Sarahpauline
True Blue Farmgirl
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sarah
Ringgold
GA
USA
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Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 08:24:03 AM
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I have a recipe that calls for butter, cream, cocoa and powdered sugar and such. Is that sounding like the one?
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sewsweet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Carol
Canada
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Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 08:42:16 AM
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I found two possibilities. First, I found a recipe in an old "Women of Unifarm" Cookbook from the 60s. It doesn't completely use cocoa. It asks for 1 sq chocolate and 2 tbsp cocoa. I'll write it out in case it's similar:
Chocolate Fudge
1 cup white sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup syrup
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cream
1 sq. chocolate & 2 tbsp cocoa
Boil to soft-ball stage when tested in cold water. Take from stove and stir in 1/3 cup flour right away. Then beat until thick and pour in pan to cool. Add walnuts if desired.
This next one I found in a Lutheran cookbook. It's very simple.
Fudge
1/2 cup cream
1 1/3 cups cocoa
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
Boil until mixture forms a soft ball. Remove from heat and add 1 cup of walnuts, a few raisins (if desired), vanilla, and 1 cup flour. Stir until smooth and thick. Pour into buttered pan and cut. (Doesn't say the size of pan.)
I haven't made either recipe, so can't vouch for their tastiness or how the recipe turns out. I usually make the simple marshmallow kind.
Good luck!
Carol
"Sewsweet"
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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 5:14:45 PM
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Thanks a bunch! The one from the Lutheran Cookbook sounds close, but the measurements are off a tad. It seems like the recipe had more cream, less sugar, waaaaay less cocoa, but the butter sounds about right. Geez, I can't remember but I do think my recipe also had brown sugar (or maybe I made that change on my own because I love brown sugar fudge!) but I'm sure it only called for about 1 cup of sugar, total, and only about 1/3 of a cup of cocoa. But like I said, it made a small batch. It had no flour in it, but I can't see where it would hurt to add it for thickening purposes.
I also remember that sometimes it turned out and sometimes it got sugary, so you had to be careful with stirring and heat. (Hey, now I'm asking myself why I'm so gung-ho to find the recipe anyhow...)
But your post did remind me that I need to check my own Lutheran Cookbooks because there might be something similar in there. The original recipe for this fudge was given to my gramma by a friend of hers, probably back in the 1940's or so.
I think I'll give your Lutheran recipe a try though, because it sounds good. If I decide to use a little less cocoa, that probably won't be a biggie, will it? Maybe add a tad more flour??
Ack. I'm usually good at playing around with food recipes, but not candy recipes -- they're too touchy. I remember making divinity with my sisters once and it got so hard Mom had to throw the mixer bowl away and replace it. Not easy to do back then, either. I think that was the last attempt at divinity until I was married and had a mixer of my own to ruin!
-Deb
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Edited by - twink on Nov 06 2009 5:15:47 PM |
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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 5:18:59 PM
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Originally posted by Sarahpauline
I have a recipe that calls for butter, cream, cocoa and powdered sugar and such. Is that sounding like the one?
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That's close, but I don't recall any powdered sugar in the recipe. My Mom had one that sounds similar, because I remember as a kid in school we had to take a recipe for class because we were contributing to some bigger project, and Mom gave me a recipe for Confectioner's Fudge. I had no clue what confectioner's sugar was, so I asked.
If you would care to post the recipe, I'm game to find something similar, too. Thanks!
-Deb
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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twink
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Deb
Rapid City
SD
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 08:13:15 AM
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Originally posted by Annika
http://www.candymaking.net/Fudge.html
Here is one that I use...is this something like it?
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Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Nope. That's not it either. No corn syrup in the recipe I had. Actually, the corn syrup is what I'm trying to avoid in most fudge recipes, which is why I'm so angry at myself for having lost it. Almost all the modern fudge recipes call for the junk.
These are the ingredients I remember (sorta!): about 6 tsps cocoa (very little which is why is was more like milk chocolate), some butter, some cream, a dash of milk, sugar (maybe 1 cup or so is all), possibly some vanilla but back in the 1940's vanilla was a luxury so I doubt that it was in there -- not that I couldn't add it now though. But it seems like there was one more ingredient and I can't remember what it was or how much was used. Does an egg sound logical?? I'm just guessing here, going by what might have been available to them back then.
-Deb
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pamcook
True Blue Farmgirl
228 Posts
Pam
Chapel Hill
NC
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - Dec 02 2009 : 1:24:34 PM
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I have a microwave fudge recipe - no corn syrup. Just cocoa, evaporated milk, butter, confectioner's sugar and vanilla. It's so easy. Never heard of flour or eggs in fudge - although you do use eggs in chess pie...hmmm...
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MaryLD
True Blue Farmgirl
861 Posts
Mary
New Braunfels
TX
USA
861 Posts |
Posted - Dec 02 2009 : 1:29:09 PM
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Thanks for the fudge reminder- I'm supposed to make some for the wrestling team bake sale next week!!
I'll try the Lutheran recipe for home use. Something tells me the marshmallow kind would be more in line w/ the bake sale concept involving certain teenagers!!
~ Mary LD
Haflingers- You can't have just one!
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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CherryPie
True Blue Farmgirl
935 Posts
Kimberly Ann
Puyallup
WA
USA
935 Posts |
Posted - Dec 03 2009 : 07:14:56 AM
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White bean fudge? Wow, I've never had that. I too am looking for recipes that take out the corn syrup. I'll try the fudge recipes here, thanks! By the way, anyone make pecan pie without it? I know that is asking a lot as it is a main ingredient, but it would be nice to get rid of corn syrup.
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
T
MI
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Posted - Dec 03 2009 : 08:14:16 AM
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flour in fudge?
I vote chocolate in all it's infinite and tasty varieties...and of course sugar.... |
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MaryLD
True Blue Farmgirl
861 Posts
Mary
New Braunfels
TX
USA
861 Posts |
Posted - Dec 03 2009 : 08:28:02 AM
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Kimbery Ann,
There was just a post about corn syrup called " I've just about had it!" right here in the Farmgirl Kitchen over the last few weeks. I posted a corn syrup pecan free pie , and we were referred to allrecipes.com for a second recipe. I ended up making that one- more economical!
Check it out!
~ Mary LD
TX
Haflingers- You can't have just one!
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Windsong
True Blue Farmgirl
309 Posts
LaVonna
Decatur
Tx
309 Posts |
Posted - Dec 03 2009 : 09:02:31 AM
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I sure do not want to stand in defense of corn syrup but wanted to point out that the one you really want to avoid is High Fructose Corn Syrup. It is a manipulated process that takes corn syrup from more of a product that your body can handle to something that is so bad for your body. Soft drinks have so much HFCS in them but here in Texas we can buy Coke made in Mexico and they do not allow HFCS there. I try to avoid soft drinks but every now andd then I will have one of those Mexican Cokes and boy does it take you back! I forgot what it used to taste like.
I tell people in classes that most cooks do not have a canister of HFCS in their kitchen and what ever you buy premade could have it. It really (REALLY) chaps me that it is in most all yogurt that we would buy at a grocery store. Danon, yoplait and such. It is in Ketchup.
I applaud all efforts to use other naturally occurring ingredients.
Farmgirl Sister #758
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
Posted - Dec 03 2009 : 09:52:59 AM
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I think you want a world war two fudge recipe, its the old fashioned kind that you had to boil long enough to candy-up then stir then pour in the pan. I have heard it called tin can fudge because they would pour it in to cans because it traveled over seas better.
Merry
Farmgirl #536
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