Oh, Fudge!

Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D.
The CookBook for all
2 min readMar 24

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A single’s delight

Photo by Maria Georgieva on Unsplash

My mother had a fudge making tradition. If a snow storm was at least five inches of snow she would make a batch of fudge. She would take her trusty pressure cooker pot with the still boiling, soft ball stage, liquid chocolate delight outside and put it in the snow to cool.

I carried this tradition forward. In Northern Virginia of the 70s and 80s this was a rare occurrence, even rarer today. In…

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Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D.
The CookBook for all

Has had an eclectic life — Waitress, Actress, Zoo Curator, Story Teller, Poet, Exhibit Designer, Writer, Farmer and Educator. Writing, essential as breathing.