Review: Good book for a gift
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
I was a little disappointed in this book.  I grew up in a housing project where purchased treats were rare.  My Mom frequently made us fudge.  Peanut butter because we didn't see nuts very often.  I no longer have her recipe.  I know it had 2 cups of sugar, cocoa powder, butter and milk and vanilla at the end.  She didn't measure out the peanut butter just took out a huge scoop from the jar and added it with the sugar and milk to cook.  One of my boy cousins who lived very close to us asked her for the recipe to make himself a batch.  In her hurry she forgot to tell him about the milk.  You couldn't get that mess out of the pan. I was hoping to find a recipe close to what she made.  My husband worked in a fudge store and made fudge commercially but again not like my Moms.  So I was disappointed. Canned milk was kept for coffee cream, and marshmallow fluff was unknown.  Sounds faster and easier than Moms.  We didn't use a double boiler or have a thermometer just a dish with cold water.