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Chapter 3: Nut Fudge
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About This Book

The collection presents scaled recipes for two, four, or six people, offering holiday and everyday dishes including candies, cookies, cakes, desserts, beverages, salads, vegetables, main dishes, stuffings, and quick company menus. Most recipes emphasize simple techniques, time-saving shortcuts, and economical substitutions using concentrated canned milk to reduce butter and cream, with practical baking directions, a serving chart, and tips for involving less experienced cooks. Examples include small-batch confections, yeast and biscuit-mix coffee cakes, savory starters, and sauces, arranged for easy planning and festive entertaining.

Index to Recipes

BEVERAGE AND COFFEE CAKE
Easy Fruit Coffee Cake 10
Eggnog 12
Pet Glaze 9
CANDIES, CAKES AND COOKIES
Butterscotch Balls 5
Coconut Kisses 11
Fruit Candy 12
Holiday Crescents 5
Mincemeat Cup Cakes 11
Nut Fudge 3
Pineapple Date Bars 13
Plain Fudge 3
Quick Fruit Cake 14
Stuffed Dates 6
Stuffed Figs 6
Stuffed Prunes 6
DESSERT AND SAUCE
Ambrosia Floating Island 4
Holiday Sauce 10
MISCELLANEOUS
Baking Directions for Poultry and Meat 8
Cheese Chips 8
MAIN DISHES AND STUFFING
Bacon Rarebit 7
Pork Chop Dinner 15
Potato Stuffing 9
SALAD AND SALAD DRESSING
Banana Nut Salad 6
Whipped Cranberry Dressing 14
VEGETABLES
Cauliflower with Egg Sauce 15
Hawaiian Sweet Potatoes 7

Form No. 4760—11-19-49—12-31-49

Nut Fudge

(Photograph on front cover)


DIRECTIONS INGREDIENTS For 1⅓ lbs. For 2¾ lbs.
1. Mix in saucepan COCOA 6 tablesp. ¾ cup
SUGAR 1½ cups 3 cups
CORN SYRUP 1½ tablesp. 3 tablesp.
PET MILK 9 tablesp. 1⅛ cups[1]
WATER 3 tablesp. 6 tablesp.
2. When well blended, cook over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil slowly, stirring now and then until candy reaches soft ball stage (see note). Cool at room temperature, without stirring, until lukewarm, or until the hand can be held comfortably on bottom of pan.
3. Add SALT few grains ⅛ teasp.
VANILLA ¾ teasp. 1½ teasp.
4. Beat until candy holds its shape. Pour into greased pan measuring about 9 × 5 inches 9 × 9 inches
5. Press into top of fudge the moment it is poured into pan whole blanched ALMONDS[2] 1½ dozen 3 dozen
6. Have nuts in rows about 1½ inches apart. Cut into squares when cool.
7. Makes 1½ dozen, 1½-in. pieces 3 dozen, 1½-in. pieces

For Plain Fudge, simply omit the nuts in the above recipe.

[1] 1⅛ cups equal 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons.

[2] Pecans, walnuts, hazel nuts, cashews, etc. also can be used.

Note: Drop a tiny bit of the hot mixture into a bowl of cold water. If it stays together in a soft ball and does not fall apart when you lift it out of the water with your fingers, then the Fudge has cooked long enough. Be sure to take candy off the heat while testing. Do not use ice cold water.


GRAND TO SERVE AT A BIG HOLIDAY PARTY

Big Bowl of Eggnog[3]
(placed in a wreath of holly or evergreens)

Small Slices of Quick Fruit Cake[3] Cheese Chips[3]

Nut Fudge[3] Salted Nuts Holiday Crescents[3]

[3] Recipes are in this book