Old Fashioned Fudge

I made fudge today using the following ingredients:

1 cup Nestle Quik
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cream
1/4 cup butter

Combine the ingredients in a pan. Bring to a boil while stirring, to keep from burning. Boil until 234 degrees (8 or 10 minutes). Quickly take it off the heat and let sit for one minute. Beat with a spoon for one minute. Then spoon into your pan and spread quickly. It gets hard very fast.

A little heads up on this recipe. Sometimes when I make this, it gets hard almost instantly - without cooling and without beating for 4 minutes. if this happens, get it out of the pan fast!

This is very rich, so you might want to cut it into small pieces. The fudge also tends to be crumbly when cut. This may be because I don't wait until it cools completely before I cut it. I'm impatient when it comes to my fudge. But that's OK, the crumbs taste good, too!





I'll be eating the crumbs and taking the rest to a dinner tonight. I've been wanting to make some fudge for a long time. I don't have any will power, so making it to take somewhere gets it out of the house and I don't end up eating too much.

Most people don't make it this way any more. We are too impatient waiting for it to get to 234 degrees and then we don't want to beat it. This recipe has never failed me. It always gets hard.
I like the old fashioned hard fudge as opposed to the soft kind everyone makes now a days.
But, I will warn you, this is very rich.

My mother loved to make fudge. She was always trying different recipes.
This was one I found in her batch of recipes.

Here is a tip. I put a string on the end of my thermometer and tape it to the range hood.
I measure it so that it hangs into the fudge mixture, but does not touch the bottom of the pan.
For me, this is easier than attaching it to the side of the pan.

If you like the old fashioned, hard fudge, give this recipe a try.
It's good!