I don’t know when it happened – or how it began, but someone decided that we no longer needed that old fashioned Hershey’s chocolate fudge recipe on the Hershey’s Cocoa can – so they took it off!
My Mom’s Vintage Hershey’s Chocolate Fudge Recipe
When I was a little girl growing up – I can even remember mom making our Hot Chocolates using Hershey’s Cocoa. So when I saw someone asking the other day if anyone had the old fashioned Hershey’s chocolate fudge recipe that used to be on the old Hershey’s Cocoa Can – I knew my mom was a stickler for cooking from scratch and I knew I had that recipe in my files.
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Old Fashioned Hershey’s
Chocolate Fudge Recipe
3 cups sugar
2/3 cup Hershey’s unsweetened Cocoa powder
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Butter 8 or 9-inch square pan, set aside.
In a good sized saucepan, stir together sugar, cocoa powder and salt; stir in milk.
Now I stir in the milk slowly and stir as I slowly pour it in. It just makes it easier to dissolve that Hershey’s Cocoa Powder.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a full rolling boil. Boil the mixture, stirring only enough to keep it from sticking to your pan – until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water, forms a soft ball which flattens when removed from water.
Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla. Mix quickly. Cool at room temperature until lukewarm.
Beat with a spoon until fudge thickens and just begins to lose some of its gloss.
Quickly spread into a very lightly buttered pan; cool completely and cut into squares.
(And by very lightly – I mean I lightly butter my pan and then wipe that buttered pan lightly with a paper towel or napkin leaving just a very slight butter film in your pan.
Making old fashioned Fudge, is just like making divinity.
You just have to let the fudge mixture cook to the right consistency and get it to where that little drop of chocolate – when dropped in a cup of water – will make a ball.
When that happens, you know your fudge mixture is done and you’re ready to pour and let it set.
It’s just like the divinity recipe.
ANYONE can make perfect old tyme fudge if you just get the cooked mixture to the point where it will make a little ball when dropped into that cold water.
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HERSHEY’S Natural Unsweetened Cocoa, 23 Ounce
Fudge By Any Other Name is NOT Real Hershey’s Chocolate Fudge.
Now you can have your Sour Cream Fudge and your Marshmallow Fudge and you can hang from your ceiling fan in a frilly outfit while making your OTHER fancy fudges but if you want real old fashioned
chocolate fudge like we had way back almost in the Pilgrim days you’re gonna want to try this recipe.
Everybody’s looking for quick fixes these days even for chocolate desserts and EVEN for old time Chocolate Fudge.
But let me tell ya – you can use your chocolate chips or your chocolate syrup and cook till the cows come home but you’re not going to have the taste and consistency of old fashioned Chocolate Fudge unless you start with Hershey’s Cocoa Powder right out of that brown can.
YUP – it’s gonna take you just about 5 minutes longer – but it’s going to be OH SO worth that extra 5 minutes.
The aroma of homemade old fashioned Hershey’s chocolate fudge recipe from the old time Hershey’s Fudge recipe simmering on the stove … there just isn’t a better aroma on planet earth.
Peace and love from the kitchen in the canyon.
I love you all gobs and thanks so SO much for stopping by.
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I’m 53 and my mother made this for me as a child. I carried on the tradition and make it for my family, not only at Christmas, but throughout the year. I can’t get enough of the stuff!
My mom always made old time fudge and divinity each year too Cheryl. I love doing all of our cooking from scratch today – because that’s the way MY mom did things. 🙂 She made all her cakes and pies from scratch too and boy could she cook and bake. 🙂 Thanks so much for posting – hope you stop by often…Kay
my Dad always made this Home made choc. fudge you can do the same for peanut butter fudge just cook the sugar milk untill soft ball and when you take it off the stove add a nice big scoop of peanut butter a stick of marg. and teas. vanilla stir with wooden spoon till thickened then poor in 8×8 buttered pan. It’s AWESOME as good as the choc.
I’ll bet it is 🙂 I’m not so much on peanut butter but I’m a fanatic about chocolate. 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you stop back by soon. Kay
My mom made this all through the year, not just for Christmas like I do. We love it, and where ever I take it, people love it, and want the recipe.
It really IS delicious Nina. You just can’t beat cooking from scratch – whether it’s a meal, bread, desert…I LOVE cooking from scratch and cooking old fashioned things….Thanks so much for reading and I hope you’ll stop by often 🙂 Kay
You are right, best fudge ever! A fat scoop of peanut butter along with the butter is also delicious, OR some black walnuts delicious. The smell of this cooking on the stove is fabulous!!!
SO glad you love the fudge. And yes on the walnuts. I love to put crushed almonds in my fudge and cookies. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you’ll stop by often .. Kay