Peanut Fudge

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoonful salt
• 1/2 tablespoonful Crisco
• 1 cupful chopped peanuts
• 1 cupful milk
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract

Method

1. 1

   Boil milk, sugar, Crisco, and salt until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water, or 240° F.

2. 2

   Remove from fire, add nuts and vanilla, beat until creamy.

3. 3

   Pour into Criscoed tins, and when cool cut into cubes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 25 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoonful Crisco Pinch cream of tartar I teaspoonful lemon extract Put Crisco, salt, honey, cream and sugar into saucepan; stir over slow fire until dissolved, then add cream of tartar. Boil until it forms a hard ball when tested in cold water, or 252° F. Remove from fire, stir in lemon extract, and pour into Criscoed tin. Mark into squares before cold. Wrap in waxed paper. Sufficient for twenty-five squares. Maple Candy 1 cupful maple sugar Y% teaspoonful salt ¥% cupful brown sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1 tablespoonful Crisco 1 cupful water Dissolve sugars in water in saucepan over fire, when boiling add Crisco and salt and boil until it hardens-when dropped in cold water, or 258° F. Remove from fire and add vanilla. Pour into Criscoed tins. When half cold mark into squares. Wrap in waxed paper. Molasses Candy 2 cupfuls brown sugar 14 teaspoonful salt Y% cupful molasses 1 gill water 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract Dissolve sugar in water in saucepan over fire, then add Crisco, mo- . lasses, and salt and boil until when tested in cold water it forms a hard ball, or 254° F. Now add vanilla and pour into Criscoed tin. When quite cold break into rough pieces. 146 Candies Peanut Fudge 2 cupfuls brown sugar YY teaspoonful salt ¥% tablespoonful Crisco 1 cupful chopped peanuts 1 cupful milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract

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