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During my fudge-making marathon recently, I decided to go out with a bang.
It started fairly normal. I wanted a maple base, so I skipped the chocolate, substituted brown sugar for white, and added maple syrup. The real stuff, since the grocery store was out of maple flavoring.
But then it took a hard left turn when I fried up a rasher of bacon nicely crispy and chopped it up.
Maple-bacon fudge! Except more like maple-bacon praline or maple-bacon brittle, because the thermometer went crazy. I had to turn off my targeting computer and, uh, the candy Force is not strong in me. I obviously need more practice with the cold water test. Or just a less sucky thermometer.
Tada! It was actually pretty tasty. Had I known it was going to be so hard, I would have poured it out much, much thinner. The bacon wasn't very noticeable, sadly. Maybe what I should have done was use the bacon grease instead of butter. Since I was leaving town the next day (and didn't want to have to declare it as a meat product to the border guards), I left it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hsifyppah who has been inflicting it on various people.
It started fairly normal. I wanted a maple base, so I skipped the chocolate, substituted brown sugar for white, and added maple syrup. The real stuff, since the grocery store was out of maple flavoring.
But then it took a hard left turn when I fried up a rasher of bacon nicely crispy and chopped it up.
Maple-bacon fudge! Except more like maple-bacon praline or maple-bacon brittle, because the thermometer went crazy. I had to turn off my targeting computer and, uh, the candy Force is not strong in me. I obviously need more practice with the cold water test. Or just a less sucky thermometer.
Tada! It was actually pretty tasty. Had I known it was going to be so hard, I would have poured it out much, much thinner. The bacon wasn't very noticeable, sadly. Maybe what I should have done was use the bacon grease instead of butter. Since I was leaving town the next day (and didn't want to have to declare it as a meat product to the border guards), I left it with
hsifyppah who has been inflicting it on various people.
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It's aging interestingly. The bacon grease is dissolving the candy around it, so you bite in to juicy bacon pockets of goo. So I'm not sure how stable the candy would be if you substituted bacon grease for butter. But as always I submit myself as a bacony guinea pig for experiments in bacon science.