Peanut Butter Fudge Recipes

Use Grandma's Easy Fudge Recipes To Make Old-Fashioned Candy Treats

Searching for old-time peanut butter fudge recipes? Here are some you can try. Did you know that peanut butter was not called for in nineteenth-century recipes as it had yet to be invented? Although the "Process of Preparing Nut Meal" was patented by the Kellogg brothers in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1895, and peanut butter was first sold as a snack food at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis, in 1904, it wasn't until the early 1920s that creamy, smooth peanut butter as we know it was first introduced.

Some early peanut candy recipes did, however, call for finely chopped peanuts, an unprocessed form of peanut butter. Modern peanut butter can be substituted for the chopped peanuts in these recipes, if you wish, but the finely chopped peanuts taste delicious in the fudge.

You will love the delicious treats made from these easy fudge recipes.

Cook together 2 cups granulated sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls peanut butter, and 1/2 cup milk until it forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water. Add 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla, cool and beat until creamy. Pour into a buttered pie plate and when nearly cold, cut it in small squares.

Wash dates thoroughly, dry them and remove stones. Fill the hollow dates with a little peanut butter. Press into shape and roll in confectioners' sugar.

Two cups granulated sugar, 1 cup chopped nuts, no water, slow fire. Put very finely chopped nuts in a greased platter or dish, 1/4 inch thick. Put sugar over slow fire -- it melts very slowly, then gets hard in lumps and melts again. When entirely free from lumps or grains, remove and pour over nuts, stirring as you pour. When cool divide in squares.