{"id":41,"date":"2006-11-21T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-11-21T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T16:43:32","slug":"grandma-louises-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Louise&#8217;s Fudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fudge%20on%20plate.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/fudge%20on%20plate.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fudge recipe is SUPER rich and delicious &#8211; very sinful.  It&#8217;s VERY easy to make and makes a great holiday gift.  My dad is absolutely powerless to resist this stuff.  It was his mother&#8217;s recipe, but she passed away 11 years ago, so I make it for him every once in a while now.  It can be frozen for surprisingly periods of time without much ill effect.  This should not be made on a rainy or very humid day &#8211; it won&#8217;t &#8220;set&#8221; properly.<\/p>\n<p>I made this batch without nuts, at the special request of Girl, who is not a fan of most nuts.  The nuts are optional, but it&#8217;s really much better with pecans in it.  If you do add the nuts, though, make SOME effort to secure decent ones &#8211; the Planters in the bag from the supermarket will absolutely NOT do.  Get good ones, even if you have to special-order them.  There are lots of things that I do NOT like about living in Texas, but one of the good things is that we are able to secure really good pecans.  My grandparents (on my mom&#8217;s side) are my &#8220;suppliers&#8221; and always seem to know a great local source.  Thanks, Granny and Pappaw!  I love you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grandma Louise&#8217;s Fudge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1\/3 cup butter<br \/>\n1 can evaporated milk<br \/>\n(The original recipe says a 14 1\/2 ounce can, but they don&#8217;t make those anymore, so I just use one 12 ounce can, plus a couple of ounces from another can to make 14 1\/2 ounces.  Any milk that you have left over is really yummy whisked into scrambled eggs before cooking &#8211; about 1 Tbsp. per egg.)<br \/>\n1 12-ounce package semisweet chocolate chips<br \/>\n4 1\/2 cups sugar<br \/>\n13 ounces German&#8217;s brand sweet baking (green box) chocolate<br \/>\n(Again, 13 ounces is an odd amount.  That&#8217;s 3 boxes, plus one or two extra squares.  The recipe would probable be fine if you just used 12 ounces, but I haven&#8217;t tried it myself.)<br \/>\n2 teaspoons vanilla<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n2 cups chopped pecans (optional, but recommended)<br \/>\n1 cup marshmallow cream (in a jar)<\/p>\n<p>Butter a 13 X 9 inch (preferably glass) baking pan.  Combine sugar, salt, butter and milk in a large pan sauce pan.  Bring to a boil over low to medium heat and boil for 5 1\/2 minutes, adjusting heat if necessary, to keep mixture from scorching.  Remove from heat and add all other ingredients, except nuts.  Beat\/stir until well mixed.  Stir in nuts, if desired.  Pour into buttered pan.  Let cool until solid, then cut into small square (about 1 1\/2 inches on a side) pieces.  Can be microwaved for a short time in a small container (coffee cup?) until melted to use for hot fudge ice cream sauce, if desired.  Mmmmm&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fudge%20in%20pan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/fudge%20in%20pan.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fudge recipe is SUPER rich and delicious &#8211; very sinful. It&#8217;s VERY easy to make and makes a great holiday gift. My dad is absolutely powerless to resist this stuff. It was his mother&#8217;s recipe, but she passed away 11 years ago, so I make it for him every once in a while now. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grandma Louise&#8217;s Fudge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}