Recipe: Steve's Ice Cream Original Hot Fudge

Good Morning Janet, I thought you might enjoy a big batch hot fudge recipe with a little history behind it. HIGH CALORIE ZONE!! - Betsy

STEVE HERRELL'S ORIGINAL HOT FUDGE
Steve's Ice Cream

Ephraim Vishniac : "First, the good part. I don't have any ice cream recipes from the original Steve's, but I do have the recipe given above for their killer hot fudge. You might want to scale it down for domestic use, or you might want to call up lots of friends."

10 oz. unsweetened chocolate
slightly less than 1 lb. butter
2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
5 cups sugar
1 1/3 cups milk
1 1/3 cups heavy cream

Melt the butter and the chocolate together. Add cocoa powder and stir until smooth. Add sugar and mix until all ingredients are moistened. The mixture will look like wet sand. Stir in the cream and milk until homogeneous. Leave on low heat for one hour or at least until the sugar is dissolved.

"Second, the story. In the late '70s, Steve's Ice Cream wasn't a national franchise outfit selling industrial-grade ice cream and frozen yogurt. It was a single store on Elm Street in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. Steve Herrell ran it, and everything they sold was made right there in the store. As you waited in the line that ran around the store, out the door, and down Elm Street, you could watch the big ice cream freezers working, rest on bags of rock salt, or admire the cases of soon-to-be-crushed Oreo cookies and Heath bars. For real entertainment, you could load a music roll into the occasionally working player piano, or smile at the stained-glass baby declaring, "Ice Cream Is Good."

Enough nostalgia? OK."

Source: Ephraim Vishniac / The Stone + Wire Company
From: alt.food.chocolate, rec.food.cooking