The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out

[venta]

For reasons which now escape me, at work yesterday we were talking about eating insects. Someone posted a link to this recipe, for "oatmealworm cookies", made with both oatmeal and mealworms. (NB That link goes to a blog about insect-eating, you have been warned

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[undyingking]

You might like my peanut-butter fudge recipe? No mealworms, but it has that amiable quality of peanut-butteriness without being peanut butter.

It's dead simple and doesn't need sugar thermometers and all that kind of stuff that trad fudge recipes call for.

(Unless you don't like fudge, of course.)

[venta]

Ooh, sounds great! I love fudge, especially if it's the crumbly kind rather than the squodgy kind you get in tourist tat shops.

[undyingking]

It is crumbly to the max! (Especially if you leave the lid off.)

* Melt 125g butter (I like salted) in a pan, add 120ml semi-skimmed milk and 500g sugar (I like soft dark brown), stir.

* Bring to the boil and let it boil (without stirring) for 3 minutes.

* Take off the heat, stir in 250g crunchy peanut butter and the seeds from one vanilla pod (or a tsp of vanilla extract, I guess).

* Put 300g icing sugar in a large bowl, and pour/scrape in the hot mixture. Beat it all together with a wooden spoon until smooth and uniform. (Bonus points if you manage to do this without shooting great puffs of icing sugar all over the place.)

* Line a sided baking tray or similar (I use a lasagne dish) with baking paper, pour in the mixture, and smooth it down into a flat layer. Let it cool to room temp then pop in the fridge to chill. Cut into cubes (you should get 120 or so) and you can keep it in a sealed box for… dunno how long, but probably quite a while. It'll get eaten much sooner than that, anyway.

[venta]

That sounds most excellent, thank you! I shall try it when I next have the opportunity (ie a bunch of people to make fudge for... ChrisC is a nut-free environment and, while I'm sure I can eat 120 cubes of fudge myself, I probably shouldn't).

(I will not be putting myself forward for bonus points. I am a most terribly messy cook.)

[undyingking]

Mm - although theoretically possible to eat the whole batch without anyone else's help, it is basically the thick end of a bag of sugar…

[ghoti]

Oooh, thankyou