Fruit Fudge

Ingredients

• 3 cups of sugar
• 1/4 cup of coconut
• 1 cup of nuts
• 1/4 cup of figs
• 1/4 cup of dates
• 1/4 cup of raisins
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 3 teaspoonfuls cocoa
• butter the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Boil sugar, butter, and milk until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water.

2. 2

   Then add the fruit, mix well, and turn into a buttered dish.

3. 3

   When nearly cold, cut into squares.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

; 1 cup of milk or cream: 1 tablespoonful of butter: 2 tablespoonfuls of molasses; y2 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little milk. Boil 10 minutes. Beat until creamy: add 1 tea- spoonful of vanilla and 1 cup of nut meats while beat- ing. When cold cut into squares. MRS. A. H. WELGEHAUSEN. — 149 — Candy Patience. 2 cups sugar; % cup sweet milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla. Put iy2 cups sugar in sauce pan and melt. Cook the remainder with the milk until it hardens when put in water. Add the melted sugar and stir five minutes. Put in buttered dish and cut in squares. MISS MAYME GREATHOUSE. Marshmallows. Boil 2 cups of sugar; y2 cup of water; till it forms a syrup. Dissolve one envelope of Knox Gelatine in y2 cup of water and let it stand 5 minutes. Pour boiling syrup over dissolved gelatine and beat till stiff. Then, pour half of portion into a buttered pan, to the other half add pink coloring wrhich conies in gelatine. Use any flavor desired, making each half different. Let it stand until it is hard enough to be cut into blocks. RUBY STEIN. Nut Candy. 2 cups sugar; y2 cup water; 1 cup nutmeats. Boil sugar and water without stirring until thick enough to spin a thread; flavor to suit taste; set in cold water; stir quickly until white, then stir in the nuts; turn into flat tins ; when cold cut into squares. MISS E. LOUDON. Wellesley Pinoche. 2 cups light brown sugar; 1 cup milk; butter, size of an egg; 1 cup chopped nuts. Boil sugar, butter and milk together until mixture thickens when tested in cold water; add nuts, beat until a thick and creamy mass; pour out into well-buttered — 150 — pan, before it has quite cooled. Cut into squares with a knife that has been dipped in boiling water. ESTELLE F. SMITH. Taffy. 3 cups sugar; y2 L'llP water; y2 cup of vinegar: butter, size of an egg; vanilla. Mix all together, cook until it hardens when drop- ped in cold water. Don't stir, turn on greased platter and pull until white. MRS. LOUIS ST1ELER. French. Nougat. 2 whites of eggs, beaten stiffly; 2^9 eups sugar; xh cllP warm water; i/2 CUP corn syrup: 1% cups nuts, candied cherries, raisins and citron, mixed. Boil sugar, syrup and water until it threads, pour half the quantity slowly into the well beaten whites of eggs, whipping incessantly. Allow the remainder to boil until it forms a hard glassy ball when dropped into water, and add the other which in the meantime has been steadily beaten. When almost hard, add fruit. Drop on oiled paper and wrap when cooled. MRS. WILLIE PBTBRMANN. After Dinner Mints. 2 cups granulated sugar-. % cups of water (cold or warm) ; 1/8 teaspoonful cream of tartar. Stir the mixture well before placing on stove; do not stir when boiling. Boil until when dropped in cold water it will roll in a soft ball between the fingers. When done, pour into buttered dish and allow it to become almost cool. Add a small drop of oil of pepper- mint and beat until of a creamy consistency. Work — 151 — with the hands until plastic ; mould with fingers into the shape desired and place moulded fondant on oiled paper. The fondant may be flavored with vanilla, lemon, or strawberry and mixed with chopped raisins, dates, cocoanut, pecans, or walnuts, then moulded into fancy shapes. JULIA ESTILL. Fruit Fudge. 3 cups of sugar, 14 CUP °^ cocoanut, 1 cup of nuts, *4 cup of figs, 14 cup of dates, •/4 CUP °& raisins, % cup of milk, 3 teaspoonfuls cocoa, butter the size of an egg

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