{"id":5968,"date":"2012-12-15T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2012-12-15T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T06:01:57","slug":"gch-whats-on-your-plate-old-fashioned-chocolate-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/15\/gch-whats-on-your-plate-old-fashioned-chocolate-fudge\/","title":{"rendered":"GCH: What&#8217;s on Your Plate? &#8211; Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?attachment_id=5969\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5969 aligncenter\" alt=\"fudge\" src=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.171\/~girlfrk8\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fudge.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fudge.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fudge-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fudge-777x1024.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing like summer on <strong><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">Mackinac Island<\/span><\/strong>. The<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong> no cars<\/strong><\/span> rule (you get around by bicycle or <strong><span style=\"color:#993300;\">horse<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">!<\/span>), the beautiful <strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\">Victorian<\/span><\/strong> homes, the <strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Grand Hotel&#8217;s porch<\/span><\/strong>, the<strong><span style=\"color:#993366;\"> lilacs<\/span><\/strong>, the quaint downtown, and the <strong><span style=\"color:#6f4a1f;\">FUDGE<\/span><\/strong>. Ryba&#8217;s Fudge Shop has made me a fudge <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">snob<\/span><\/strong>. There is nothing in the world like it, and believe me&#8230; I&#8217;ve tasted a lot of fudge from a lot of places and have tested several recipes, looking for something that comes close, and this recipe comes the closest! Some of my taste testers have even said it&#8217;s the <strong><span style=\"color:#008080;\">best<\/span><\/strong> fudge they&#8217;ve had. While it&#8217;s not Mackinac fudge, I sure enjoy it, and hope you do too!<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 ounces baker&#8217;s unsweetened chocolate<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups whole milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>3 1\/4 Tblsp light corn syrup<\/li>\n<li>4 cups baker&#8217;s ultrafine sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp pure vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>3 1\/2 Tblsp salted butter, melted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a medium saucepan, heat the milk and chocolate on low until melted, stirring occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>Add salt, corn sugar, and syrup to the saucepan, and gradually increase heat until boiling while stirring constantly.<\/li>\n<li>Once it reaches a boil, stop stirring, and allow to boil until it reaches 234 degrees F on a digital\/candy thermometer.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as it reaches 234 degrees, remove the saucepan from the burner, then add in the vanilla and melted butter. Do not stir.<\/li>\n<li>Allow to cool in the pan to 110-115 degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Butter an 8&#8243; cake pan. Bottom and sides.<\/li>\n<li>When fudge reaches\u00a0 the correct temperature, stir for 14-18 minutes with a wooden spoon. It will become thick and lose its glossiness.<\/li>\n<li>Pour fudge into cake pan and smooth top.<\/li>\n<li>Allow to cool in the refrigerator. Once fudge is completely cooled, cut into small squares.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3dc28f;\"><strong>Praise God! Let&#8217;s eat!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#3dc28f;\"><strong><em>Shandy<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Be sure to visit Shandy\u2019s personal blog\u00a0<span style=\"color:#26ce3a;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aprons-n-pearls.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color:#26ce3a;\">Aprons \u2018n Pearls<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0for crafts, recipes, homekeeping tips &amp; more!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like summer on Mackinac Island. The no cars rule (you get around by bicycle or horse!), the beautiful Victorian homes, the Grand Hotel&#8217;s porch, the lilacs, the quaint downtown, and the FUDGE. Ryba&#8217;s Fudge Shop has made me a fudge snob. There is nothing in the world like it, and believe me&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[9296,202,221,300,402,403,417,425,638,954],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","tag-at-home-with-gch","tag-chocolate","tag-christmas","tag-desserts","tag-fudge","tag-fudge-recipes","tag-gchwhats-on-your-plate","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-mackinac-island","tag-shandy-showers","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fudge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-1yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}