Hot Fudge Sauce

Version 1 1/2 cup margarine
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 large can evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla

In a 2 1/2 quart sauce pan, melt margarine and chocolate. Add sugar slowly while stirring over medium heat. Add salt, milk and bring to boil. Boil three minutes. Add vanilla.

From St. Johns Lutheran Church, Northfield, ALCW Centennial Cookbook, 1975.


Version 2

Melt in double boiler over hot water:
2 oz unsweetened chocolate
Add:
1 Tbsp butter
1/3 cup boiling water
Stir well and then add:
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp corn syrup

Permit sauce to boil readily, but not too furiously over direct heat. Do not stir. If you wish an ordinary sauce, boil it for 5 minutes. If you wish a hot sauce that will harden over ice cream, boil for about 8 minutes.

Add:
1 tsp vanilla or 2 tsp rum
When cold, this sauce is very thick and it hardens more with each reheating.

From Joy of Cooking, 1967.