Best Homemade Fudge

I call this the best fudge ever for several reasons

1. Ingredients are usually readily available in the house.
2. It only takes a bit of time to make Prep 5 min, Cook 5-7 min, Stir and pour 3-5 min.
3. Turns out perfect  each time.
4. Most importantly, it is my mom's recipe and it brings me home when I need a little emotional treat.

5. I used to offer fudge for fundraisers at work. I worked on the inpatient floor at our local women's and children's hospital. Sometimes we just needed something and fudge would start to raise money. We bought hand held fetal monitors for one of our specialist who went to an African community. We also bought movies for our VHS machines before Netflix took over. Other times some of our own staff were in a crisis, health or otherwise, and my fudge would raise several hundred dollars each time to help our cause. Trust me this is good fudge.

Lets not waste any more time with blabber about this or that and start with preparing all you need.

You will need,
A heavy bottom pot
Wooden spoon
9X9 buttered pan or something to pour your fudge in
Candy Thermometer
Sugar, white and brown,
Milk
Butter
Salt
Corn syrup
Flavoring, vanilla, cocoa, coffee, etc
Add ins - coconut, walnuts, marshmallows (all after cooking if you wish)
Someone to eat the fudge later.

Ingredient List
White sugar                               2 cups
Brown sugar                              2 cups
Butter (salted or unsalted)         1/4 cup
Salt                                            1/4 tsp if unsalted butter
Milk (Whole is better )             1 scant cup
Corn Syrup                                2 Tbsp
Vanilla                                       1 tsp

Bring to boil until candy thermometer reaches 236-238 F. Then let fudge cool to about 100-120F
Begin to stir just until the fudge becomes slightly thicker and shine changes. Get it into a buttered pan quickly as at this point it becomes firm very fast.      

You can put the pan in the fridge for an hour until it sets. then dig in.

Here are a few varieties using the base fudge recipe.

1. Chocolate----add 3 tablespoons of cocoa to the main recipe

2. Mocha-----add 2 tablespoons of cocoa and 2 tablespoons of instant coffee

3. EggNog----substitute the milk for your favorite eggnog

4. Rum and Raisin----Add 1 tsp of rum extract and 1 cup of raisins when waiting for cool down

5. I have made this recipe with 1 cup of Baileys Irish Cream, but you need to use a larger pot because the alcohol bubbles like crazy. You subsititute the milk for the Irish Cream

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