November 2008


An old recipe that our family has been making for a few generations. I found out recently that my maternal grandmother used to make this a lot around Thanksgiving time. We always loved this fudge as kids and I still like it. Most of my kids don’t really enjoy it though so there’s more for me : – ) I don’t know what’s wrong with kids these days.

Smith College Fudge

  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1 c. dark brown sugar
  • 2 T. dark molasses
  • 1/2 c. milk
  • 2 T butter
  • 2 squares unsweeted bakers chocolate
  • pinch of salt

Melt butter, add milk, sugars and molasses and boil exactly 3 minutes.
Add chocolate and salt.
Beat until hardening.
Pour into a buttered 8×8 baking dish.
Cut while cool (about 45 minutes to 1 hour).

Feast on the pure nutrition of these ingredients!

Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers —
Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike they were free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.

— Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1847

Pity on us, I suppose, as we live in the midst of the envy
and with the fear that our leaders will become tyrants.