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Grandpa's Old Fashioned Fudge Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 cups sugar
2/3 cup cocoa
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups whole mild, no substitute
1/4 cup real butter, no substitute
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:
Directions:
Butter 9 inch square pan using lots of butter.
In large heavy saucepan stir together first three ingredients; gently stir in milk with a wooden spoon.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
Boil without stirring, to 234 degrees on a candy thermometer (or until syrup, when dropped in very cold water forms a soft ball which flattens when removed from . This can take from 20 to 30 minutes.
Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla
DO NOT STIR! Cool at room temperature to 110 degrees (lukewarm) This can take up to 2 hours or more, so be patient.
Beat with a wooden spoon until fudge thickens and loses some of its gloss. This take up to 30 minutes, so try to get Olin to help. It starts to look more like frosting than a thick syrup when it starts getting completed .
quickly spread into prepared pan. Cool. Cut into squares.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Grandpa got this recipe from the back of Hersey's Cocoa. I'm not sure anyone liked it that much, but was Grandpa's favorite.

 

 

 

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