One other interesting fudge fact - down the shore the fudge is often made by adorable young men on summer work visas. They stand in the window with giant paddles. It's fun to watch.
I will as soon as I get home! It’s a fascinating old book. It even tells how to pluck a chicken.
Old cookbooks are my new obsession. I'm always on the lookout for them at yard sales. They always have the best recipes. Some of the ingredients can be hard to find, so I have a lot of random items in my pantry LOL
I will definitely make the Fudge recipe when you post it, next month probably when I have 5 minutes to myself, and will report back for sure!
That would explain why it was more of a Christmas thing in AZ.
You could buy it in Tombstone year round!
Yeah... I never cared enough about fudge (or Tombstone), to go to there for fudge. lol I am sure that it was more available than I thought, and I just never noticed.
I am not a chocolate eater, but doesn't pretty much every chocolatier/confectioner have fudge in their shop?
Reminds me of this time one of my bosses, a woman in her late 50s, brought her Lexus to be serviced. Apparently she had a box of fudge in the backseat and it "disappeared" after the service. She was really upset. Complained to Lexus about someone stealing her fudge. Had the whole dealership look for it. Knowing her, it was probably never there but she is convinced there is a fudge thief at Lexus. We still tease her several years later.
We always make a big batch at Christmas. I always cut down the sugar in the recipe and use bittersweet chocolate. I wrap up logs in foil and freeze them to use later. By use I mean melt and pour over vanilla icecream. I need to get icecream tomorrow so I can have hot fudge. Thanks ML.
I love fudge but I dislike vacation store fudge. My grandma’s was the best and it wasn’t soft... more like sturdy and crumbly when you bite into it. I would kill for that recipe.
My MIL’s fudge was like this and it was the recipe on the Domino 10x sugar box.
We always make a big batch at Christmas. I always cut down the sugar in the recipe and use bittersweet chocolate. I wrap up logs in foil and freeze them to use later. By use I mean melt and pour over vanilla icecream. I need to get icecream tomorrow so I can have hot fudge. Thanks ML.
Best idea I've heard in forever. I'm so doing this.
Post by lexxasaurus on Aug 9, 2018 15:50:57 GMT -5
Back home in Alaska (tourist town/cruise ship port) we have a fudge shop with a shit ton of different flavors. That and my stand-in-grandma always made it during the holidays so I guess I kind of associate it with Christmas also.
Opera fudge is where it's at. All other fudge is crap. (Lol)
But I never realized people associated it so specifically. I grew with people making regular fudge for holidays, at all kinds of sales, at the local candy stores, and all the Mennonite stands. It just..was another candy option.
Well you must be local, you have my condolences. Not many people know about opera fudge.
Post by Miss Phryne Fisher on Aug 10, 2018 2:46:35 GMT -5
Definitely not an American thing (possibly a white people thing though) , I just got back from England/Scotland and they do a lot of fudge. Strange enough though, although I visited several towns that had a long fudge tradition almost none of it is chocolate. They eat a lot of vanilla fudge.
Which makes me want chocolate/walnut fudge real bad.