00:06hello there folks and a very warm welcome back to what's for tea and it's lovely to see you
00:12and i hope that i find you well and today i made a batch of this beautiful rum and raisin
00:18fudge
00:18it's just oh it's just one of those things one piece is never enough so i'm just going to show
00:24you how i'm putting this together and as usual all ingredients will be on the screen as we
00:29go so go over to your cooker the first thing i'm going to add to the pan is my butter
00:34i am using
00:35unsalted butter you can use salted if you like i'm also going to add some condensed milk so straight
00:41in with that and the sugar i am using is brown demerara sugar you can use soft brown sugar if
00:48you prefer a smoother texture this one is quite gritty so it really does you know it can affect
00:54the texture quite a bit depending on the sugar that you use like i said i want a more gritty
01:00fudge
01:00this time so i am using the demerara but use the soft like i said if you want a smoother
01:06fudge
01:06and then you can either add milk or cream i am using cream and that's just going to make it
01:12extra
01:12rich and delicious but use milk if you prefer i'm also going to add a teaspoon of vanilla just for
01:19some extra sweetness and flavor and then your raisins and my rum flavoring i am going to add
01:24at the end this is an alcohol free recipe you can use actual rum if you prefer but i'm going
01:31to use
01:31the rum flavoring so you want to slowly melt all of these ingredients together in quite a low heat
01:38just until your butter has melted and all of your sugar has dissolved i'm going to use a thermometer
01:44if you don't have one of these it's no problem you just want to increase your heat slightly and
01:50then get this onto a rolling boil for 15 minutes so you really don't need a thermometer i am just
01:56using one because i've got one and if you've got one get this up to 240 degrees for 15 minutes
02:03and
02:04you want to stir this occasionally just to keep it moving and make sure it doesn't stick after 15 minutes
02:10it should be looking something like this so just set this to the side to cool down for a few
02:15minutes
02:16so just leave it for a few minutes and then go back and give it a good stir and you
02:20want to beat this
02:21quite vigorously for about five minutes and then i'm this is when i'm going to add my raisins so i'm
02:28just going to pop my raisins straight in there and give it a good stir through and then i'm going
02:32to
02:32add the rum flavoring like i said this is alcohol free if you want to use actual rum use two
02:38tablespoons
02:39if you're using this concentrated flavoring just use two teaspoons because it's quite strong and
02:46then you want to beat this again for another few minutes and it'll go lovely and thick just like
02:52this this is ideal lovely and glossy and thick and smooth now you want to grab your tin i am
02:58just using
02:59a square tin which i've lined you want to tip your mixture in there and you just want to kind
03:04of
03:04flatten it down make sure it's nice and even you can tilt your pan from side to side because it'll
03:10still be quite loose at this point but getting thicker by the second this stuff sets quite quickly
03:16so you will want to do this but as quickly as you can just keep turning your pan around and
03:22smoothing
03:22it down with the back of a spoon tilt your pan around and as you can see there is a
03:26wee bit of
03:26movement there but you do want this nice and flat so that when you cut this into squares
03:31it's fairly even and everybody's getting the same size of chunk so leave this to set you don't need
03:37to refrigerate this unless you're in a very warm country otherwise you might want to refrigerate
03:42this but this will take a few hours to set properly and there should be no heat in here at
03:48all and it
03:49should be looking something like this it lifts really easily out your pan and as you can see it's
03:54set beautifully it's lovely and solid so all you have to do now is cut this into batons and then
04:00into wee squares just use a nice sharp knife to make sure you get straight through all those
04:06raisins and this is absolutely beautiful it's got such a strong sort of buttery vanilla rum flavour
04:14and the addition of those raisins just gives it such a lovely texture so just take your time
04:20cut this into nice wee squares and I'm going to pile this up on a plate just for the sake
04:25of the
04:26youtube picture and this will keep quite happily in an airtight container for a good few days before
04:32it starts to go a bit you know a bit not so nice because we've used fresh cream in here
04:37you know
04:38it's not going to keep forever but this usually doesn't hang around very long so do let me know
04:43if you're planning on giving that one a go it's lovely and makes a good wee gift as well thank
04:49you so
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