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    Needed good candy thermometer for fudge?

    Some of you guys are nuts, so no need to add any to your fudge. It is hard to believe you can melt chocolate with nuts, and come up with fudge. All I see is chocolate with nuts in it, and a nut that made it. :) Any body ever use a thermometer??
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    Needed good candy thermometer for fudge?

    I went online and checked out the thermometers that you guys suggested, no one suggested a digital just wondering why, I like both thermometers that were suggested. I really like the idea of the paddle, but my main consern is accuracy. The fudge I make says stir constantly. So my guess is i can...
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    Needed good candy thermometer for fudge?

    what type of chocolate semi sweet, what size bag, I may try this one day, Of course you can always purchase a bag of hersheys kiss's chocolate if you want to go for easy, but I like the taste of homade fudge, and the last 5 or 6 batches have been great. I have noticed sometimes the fudge hardens...
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    Needed good candy thermometer for fudge?

    Ok, Mom used to make fudge with the cold water soft ball method, she used the hersheys fudge recipe, very hard for me to make , then I tried the fantasy fudge recipe, much much easier recipe for success. I would like a good thermometer for fudge, I searched threads for candy thermometers and...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    Ah CP I should have known, everybody else does :smile:Thanks Dave that is a help, a big help, I don't have time to post pic this morning, got some stuff to do, gotta work sometime. I posted a pic of cake 8 with cake 7 somewhere but can't find pic of the album of flat cake 7. Everybody should...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    where am I? lost again: Ok Tim I used the new crisco recipe with milk, It's not the crusty dense moist pound cake, I am accustom to, and again I do not know where I am posting, who I am answering, or where to post pictures, this web site is not user friendly. It is like some of the computer...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    Cake 8 not flat but a flop ok I was happy to see cake 8 not flat. when I cut into the cake it did not act like pound cake, too spongy. cake was really moist, even the crust was moist, strange, This cake had a good flavor, it was easy to fall apart, and very moist, The cake did not cut like...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    Ok I took a few pic of the pound cake for Tim or piccolo5 to check out, I do not know how to navigate around this site. but that is fine, I posted 4 pictures. Today it is cool near Atlanta GA. It is Mothers day, My mom and grandmother are gone, I am 57 and will be 58 in Dec 7, 2010 nope I am...
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    flat pound cake anyone!

    My 7th failed pound cake,
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    I hope # 8 will be a winner I will try again soon Thanks Janet for the Crisco page with a pound cake recipe, If my cousin gave me the wrong recipe that caused me all this wasted effort and time, I might give her an ear full. again I may not. she did not mean to. My grandmother was cooking this...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    My grandmother used an electric mixer to mix the flour, this was in about 1975 I know she made one a week for months on end, all her 10 kids all grown at the time and me one of the many many grandkids were always fed at grannies house, cake and ice cream, or a coke float, or home cooked meals on...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    7cakes in 7days 7 rise then fall flat flat flat Ok I tried creaming the crisco, adding sugar slowly, then beating eggs extract then adding to crisco and sugar slowly. then added flour I also added about a tea spoon of baking soda, and I sifted the flour and using a 1cup measuring cup with...
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    6 cakes in 6 days; all fell flat?

    I don't think I have ever cooked a cake, but I wanted to duplicate my grandmothers pound cake recipe, I found a cuz, who gave me the recipe, 2cup sugar, 1cup crisco, 6 eggs, 1tsp of vanilla and lemon extract and 2 cups of self rising flour. The first, I crushed the crisco into the sugar, until...
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