Jim's peanut butter fudge

64 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Sugar
1 cup Condensed milk
½ cup Water
3 ounces Unsweetened cooking --
Chocolate
5 tablespoons Peanut butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ cup Peanuts (optional)
2 dashes Salt

Directions

Butter 8-inch square baking dish. In a saucepan, melt together milk, water and chocolate. Stir in sugar and salt. Over moderate heat, bring to soft ball, about 234 degrees F. on candy thermometer, stirring frequently. Keep bottom of pan free of lumps. Remove pan from heat, and add peanut butter, vanilla and nuts. DO NOT stir.

When mixture cools to 150 degrees F, stir until it loses its sheen.

Turn rapidly into buttered dish. When firm, cut into 1-inch squares.

Makes 64 pieces of fudge

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