Peanut Butter Fudge
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Chocolate and peanut-butter soft-ball recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
Ingredients
- 2 sq. unsweetened choc.
- 2 C sugar
- ¼ t salt
- ⅔ C milk
- ¼ C peanut butter
- 1 t Vanilla
Directions
- mix Choc. sugar - salt - milk -; Remove from heat - add peanut butter -; add Vanilla - beat till thick & creamy - turn into greased pan.
- boil 5 min stirring till soft ball forms in cold water.
Timing: boil 5 min
Temperature: boiling pt.; cold water; Remove from heat; lukewarm
Equipment: large saucepan; greased pan
Large brown-and-white-sugar batch
Old Binder typed sheet
Ingredients
- 2 lb Brown Sugar
- 1 lb White Sugar
- Start with 1/2 cup milk, then add more a little at a time, possibly up to 1 cup.
- 1 to 1½ lb peanut butter
Directions
- Start out with ½ cup then add a little more at a time. May need a cup (½ cup to 3/4 cup to 1 cup)
- Boil test in cold until a soft ball forms
- Then add 1 to 1½ lb peanut butter mix in
- Pour into large butter pan.
Temperature: Boil and test until a soft ball forms, using a cold test medium whose noun is omitted
Equipment: cooking vessel, stirring utensil, cold-test vessel, and large butter pan
Compare the cards
Chocolate, sugar types, and peanut-butter quantity
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, 2 cups sugar, and 1/4 cup peanut butter
- Old Binder typed sheet
- No chocolate stated; 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 pound white sugar, and 1 to 1 1/2 pounds peanut butter
Milk quantity
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- 2/3 cup milk
- Old Binder typed sheet
- Milk enough to wet, starting with 1/2 cup and increasing gradually, possibly to 3/4 cup or 1 cup
Boiling, cooling, flavoring, beating, and pan finish
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-sided handwritten card
- Boil 5 minutes to soft-ball stage, add peanut butter, cool without stirring to lukewarm, add vanilla, beat thick and creamy, and turn into a greased pan
- Old Binder typed sheet
- Boil to a soft-ball test in an unspecified cold medium, mix in peanut butter, and pour into a large butter pan; no boil time, cooling stage, vanilla, or beating endpoint is stated
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