Five Pounds Chocolate Fudge

"I got this recipe out of Southern Living several years ago.The magazine credits Mrs. R.D. Walker of Garland, TX for the recipe. It is the only fudge I make, because it does make a large amount, and I find it easy to make. I am posting this for safekeeping, since I have lost it more than once. It does matter that you use good chocolate chips. Once I made it with a not-quite-so-good chips and it was pretty nasty.Cooking time is a guess, it doesn't really take too long, but I have never timed it."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
8
Yields:
5 pounds
Serves:
150

ingredients

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directions

  • Combine first 3 ingredients in a large bowl; set it aside.
  • Combine the sugar and evaporated milk in a buttered(very important)Dutch oven. (If you don't butter the sides, your sugar could crystallize and ruin the fudge.).
  • Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture reaches soft ball stage, or candy thermometer registers 234 degrees.
  • Pour over chocolate chip mixture.
  • Beat at high speed with an electric mixer or wooden spoon until mixture thickens and begins to lose its gloss. (I just use a spoon, you don't have to beat this very long.).
  • Stir in vanilla and chopped pecans.
  • Spread fudge evenly into a buttered 15 x 10 jellyroll pan. (I usually put in waxed paper and butter the waxed paper. It comes out very easily that way if you want to cut it out of the pan, not in it.).
  • Chill until firm. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
  • I cut it into 1" squares, so it makes 150 servings.

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Tweaks

  1. My mother and now my father (since mom has passed) has made this for years and he has informed me that you have to cook the sugar and milk exactly nine minutes at a rolling boil to reach the correct temperature. He's 85 years old and been doing this a long time so I think he knows what he's doing. He has gotten 10 lbs of fudge made already this week along with butter toffee and two flavors of hard tack candy. Hope this will help someone making fudge for the first time I can't believe I'm 60 years old and had to ask my daddy about this recipe but maybe this year I'll get it. Oh and I should explain mom didn't like kids in her kitchen even older ones like me!
     

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