Grandma Old Fashioned Fudge Recipe

Lightly grease an 8 or 9 inch square pan.

Grandma old fashioned fudge recipe. Combine dry ingredients in heavy 4 quart saucepan. Remove from heat and add butter vanilla. An hour later and i was still methodically checking the temperature to see if it has reduced.

Mix until smooth creamy. Cool at room temperature to 110 degrees. Combine brown sugar milk in saucepan and stir until the sugar begins to dissolve.

Stir well and cook over medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil. Bring to a rolling boil while stirring constantly. The recipe says to heat to 234 f stir in the butter and then let cool to 110 f.

This is just under the soft ball stage but this is the correct temperature for making cocoa fudge. Line a 13 9 inch pan with aluminum foil and grease generously. Beat with wooden spoon until thickens and loses.

Scroll down to the end of this post for the full recipe for old fashioned fantasy fudge. I thought this would take about 15 minutes. Bring to a bubbly boil over medium heat stirring constantly.

You can stir it and scrape the sides of the pan until it starts to boil. Cook over medium high heat until mixture reaches the soft ball stage about 235 degrees.