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\ud83c\udf6c The recipe card I lost<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This one comes from my grandmother on my dad’s side. She passed away, and she left behind a whole stack of good recipes. This brown sugar fudge is the one I kept going back to. She had written it out for me by hand, I copied it down, and then I lost the paper. It is gone. The recipe itself I still have, start to finish, and it is exactly the one written below.<\/p>\n

I make it every single year. I give some away as gifts too, in theory. In practice I have a hard time parting with it, because it is too good.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd44 Old fashioned penuche, no candy thermometer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is where my grandmother’s version splits from every other one. No candy thermometer. No soft ball stage to watch for in a glass of cold water. No forty minutes of beating, waiting for the mixture to lose its shine at the right second. You count three minutes of rolling boil, pour it into a big bowl, and whisk in the icing sugar. The icing sugar does the work that other recipes ask of your arm.<\/p>\n

That method is hers, not something I came up with. In my kitchen it has never turned grainy.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf30 Pecans, and the month of December<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The pecans are hers too. Most Quebec brown sugar fudge skips the nuts, and I think that is a shame. The bit of crunch cuts the sweetness just enough that you reach for a second square without feeling sick of it. The semi-salted butter does the same job, right from the start, straight in the saucepan.<\/p>\n

December is its month. A box of squares, some paper, a piece of string, and you have a gift sorted. If you want to fill out the plate, my chocolate bacon fudge<\/a> and my truffles with Tia Maria and hazelnuts<\/a> sit beautifully next to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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