Tonight: teh Russian Fudge battle. Here's the recipe in case you want to experience synchronicity and make fudge similtaeneously with me. I'll be starting at 7.30pm precisely.
From the Edmond's cookbook:
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
heat these in a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Add 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk, 125g butter, pinch of salt, and 1 tablespoon of golden syrup. Stir until the butter has melted then bring to the boil and wage a terrible war on the mixture. You have to stir every so often so that the sugar doesn't burn onto the bottom of your saucepan but you can't stir too often because the boiling morass spits at you and burns your arm. You do of course, have to pay some kind of blood price, but the fudge will decide what and when so don't worry about that.
Eventually it'll reach the soft ball stage and if you don't know what that is, then you have no business risking your life making Russian fudge. When it reaches this stage take it off the heat and allow to cool slightly. Beat it, beat it mercilessly, beat it until it thickens. Pour into a buttered tin and mark into squares. Marking into squares isn't very easy but it does make it break up nicely later on. Feel free to mark it into other shapes or carve eldritch symbols into it so it doesn't come back from the dead and avenge itself on you.
When it's cold, cut it up into bite sized pieces and give to people who aren't afraid of the Russian fudge. If you stack it into a Tupperware container it lasts quite a long time.
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. PS. soft ball stage is when you can drop a teeny bit of mixture into a cup of cold water and it forms a little ball which you can squish. Hard ball stage is useful for making toffee.
Posted by jenni at December 19, 2005 11:08 AM