Fudge | Typical Valentine’s Sweets

It all started with a poem…
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you …
To the tune of “All you need is love”….

While in the kitchen we were cooking fudge, a traditional sweet, eaten in all English speaking countries around the world, curiously one of the oldest Fudge shops is in Cambridge, and you can taste several different flavours and try their free samples.It is called the “ Cambridge Fudge kitchen ” and all the way from Cambridge to Escola Global we all tried yet another well deserved treat, homemade fudge!! Yummy for my tummy!!

Here goes the recipe…

FUDGE

Ingredients

900g sugar
125g margarine
250ml milk
1 tin condense milk
5ml vanilla essence
25ml syrup (similar to honey)

Method

Melt sugar and margarine, add milk and stir. Pour in condense milk and syrup. Cook and stir until firm. Put in vanilla essence. Stir constantly so that it doesn’t burn. Take off stove/cooker and put into a greased pan and cut into small squares and ENJOY!!

Interesting facts about Valentines….
1. Richard Cadbury’s was the first person to introduce a box of chocolate to offer on Valentines in 1868.
2. Red roses are the most popular boquet to offer on Valentines, why? Roses were Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love’s favourite flower.
3. Men account for 73% of flower sales on Valentine’s Day, hey what happened to offering chocolates!!
Finally to all our readers one of our jokes from the Cambridge Kid’s box book, what do you call a dog with a temperature?…. A hot dog!!