Recipe of the Month – April

Aaron’s Fudge

Ingredients:
397g can condensed milk
150ml milk (we used Fen Farm Raw Milk)
450g demerara sugar
115g butter
(These ingredients can be doubled)
You will need: 20cm square tin, lined with baking parchment.
Sugar thermometer (optional).

Method
Place all the ingredients into a large non-stick saucepan.
Melt over a low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Bring slowly to boil then simmer for 15 mins stirring continuously,
scraping the base of the pan.
Remove from the heat when the temperature reaches 118°C, or
when mixture forms a soft ball after being dropped in cold water.
After 1 min, carefully pour the mixture into a bowl and with an
electric whisk, beat until it is starting to set; about 5 mins.
Pour into the prepared tin and leave to cool at room temperature
before cutting into pieces.
Variation
For Aaron’s Special Fudge you can add 50ml of The English Whisky
Company Single Malt Whisky, Baileys or other liqueur with the other
ingredients before heating and/or add extra cranberries, nuts etc
after whisking.

Cooking for One – a collection of recipes and stories written by the bereaved offering wisdom, insight, love and hope.

Cooking for One contains no platitudes about what a great healer time can be, it is a candid account of the raw pain and utter loneliness that grief can bring about. Those who have opened up about their grief have told it as it really is, not what they think people want to hear. They tell you what has helped and the lessons that they have learned along the way.

So, as well as containing delicious recipes, Cooking for One aims to serve as a personal handbook designed to help the bereaved navigate their personal pathway of grief. Despite people telling them that they ‘really ought to be getting over the worst of it by now’ – and however much they appear to be outwardly coping – perhaps the pain will never fully fade and nor would they wish it to.

Sonya’s Story

At 21 years old, my son Aaron Wright loved life and food. He took food technology as a GCSE at Sir John Leman High School and was always looking for recipes to try. Usually, the ingredients were doubled or tripled, so there was always plenty to sample.

Aaron enjoyed planning and cooking meals for the week, although he was not so good at doing it on a budget or at clearing up! When he was told he had only months to live and the two rounds of weekly chemotherapy had not slowed the disease, calories mattered.

We didn’t worry about the calories he was eating as we knew he would see it again later when his body rejected it. Pseudomyxoma peritonei was a rare type of cancer. We had just eight months from his diagnosis to make memories and to achieve some of the things on his bucket list. What a fun time we had!

Keep smiling, Aaron.

Enjoy the fudge!

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