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Default Recipe: Mamie Eisenhowers Million Dollar Fudge (Another "heirloomrecipe")

zxcvbob wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> This is from a newspaper clipping found in that old recipe box. Since
>> Eisenhower (as well as Mamie) left office in 1961 it's a fair shake to
>> say this newspaper clipping is pretty darned old The recipe was
>> apparently listed in a number of "ladies" magazines during her
>> husband's tenure at the White House and probably underwent many changes.
>>
>> Mamie Eisenhowers Million Dollar Fudge
>>
>> 4-1/2 c. sugar
>> 2 Tbs. butter
>> 1 tall can evaporated milk
>> Boil 6 minutes
>>
>> Put in large bowl:
>> 12 ounces German Sweet Chocolate [I'm guessing that's what I know as
>> baking chocolate for German chocolate cake]
>> 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
>> 1 pint marshmallow cream
>> 2 cups nutmeats
>>
>> Boil boiling syrup over ingredients in bowl. Beat until chocolate is
>> all melted and pour in pan. Let stand a few hours until cutting.
>> Store in tin box.
>>
>> Jill

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>
>
> It does not look very good (IMHO), but I've seen worse. :-)
>
> The sweet chocolate refers to a bar (2 bars?) of "Baker's German's Sweet
> Chocolate." (notice the extra apostrophe, it is significant) It is a
> very specific brand of sweet baking chocolate. I'll bet you could
> substitute another 12 ounces of chocolate chips and it wouldn't hurt a
> thing. HTH


Nothing that includes marshmallow fluff sounds good to me.

I learned to make old-school cooked fudge and never knew it was supposed
to be difficult until a teacher I made it for told me so.

In retrospect, there was the batch that ended up as ice cream topping
due to under-cooking (my thermometer got broken and I was foggy on the
whole "soft ball" concept), and the one that had to be chipped out of
the pan with a screwdriver because I got a phone call from a cute guy in
my English class at a critical juncture, but otherwise there's just no
excuse for marshmallow fluff.