Daddy’s Skillet Cocoa Fudge
From a vintage recipe box found at an estate sale
As written on the card
GW Recipes: Daddy’s Skillet Cocoa Fudge
Cooking time is somewhat shortened when you make this good, creamy candy in a heavy pan that is wide across the top, like an iron skillet.
4 tablespoons butter or margarine
1½ cups milk
3 cups GW Granulated Sugar
2/3 cup cocoa
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter or margarine in a large (10-inch) skillet or heavy pan; add milk and heat to boiling. Combine sugar, cocoa and cream of tartar; stir well into heated milk, using a wooden spoon. Continue stirring until mixture boils. Lower heat and cook gently (don’t let it boil too hard for it may run over or stick to the bottom), without stirring, to a soft-ball stage (236°F.), about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Let stand, without moving or stirring, until candy is barely lukewarm (110° F.). Add vanilla. Stir-beat with a heavy spoon until candy becomes creamy and loses its gloss, about 8 minutes. Pour into lightly greased 8-inch-square pan. Cut into pieces while still warm. Makes about 1½ pounds of candy.
Daddy’s Skillet Cocoa Fudge
A printed GW (Great Western) Sugar recipe slip; someone marked a big “3” over the first letter of the title
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1½ cups milk
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- ⅔ cup cocoa
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
- Heat the milk: Melt the butter in a large (10-inch) skillet or heavy pan, add the milk and heat to boiling.
- Add the sugar: Mix the sugar, cocoa and cream of tartar and stir well into the hot milk with a wooden spoon. Keep stirring until it boils.
- Cook: Lower the heat and cook gently, without stirring, to the soft-ball stage (236°F), about 15 minutes.
- Cool: Remove from heat and let stand, without moving or stirring, until barely lukewarm (110°F).
- Beat: Add the vanilla and stir-beat with a heavy spoon until creamy and no longer glossy, about 8 minutes.
- Set: Pour into a lightly greased 8-inch square pan and cut into pieces while still warm.
As written: A hand-drawn “3” covers the first letter of the title; it reads “Daddy’s.”
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