I remember my mother making fudge from this recipe when i was a little girl. I will be 62 this year. She passed away in 2001 and I miss her more every day. I still can't figure out how she made it since we never owned a candy thermometer. Any ideas how??. Anyway, thanks for all the comments and eat fudge as often as you can..

To make it without the candy thermometer, test a drop in ice cold water. If it forms a ball, it's ready to stir. I will eat no other fudge, either. Never have, never will.

I am pretty young and this is the first time I made this fudge and I made it with my friends. It taste great but its hard to wait for it to cool. I kept wanting to stir it just to lick the spoon!

You are all babies. I have been making this recipe since before world war 2 and there is no other fudge that can touch it. Every time some one says, "This is the best fudge of all time" and I try it, hoping it will come up to this recipe, it never does.

This is by far the best fudge if you follow instructions, and don't use cheap beet sugar!! I find pure cane sugar works the best!!!

I used to make Hershey's choc. fudge from the recipe on the cocoa box 50 years ago when I was 12! It took so much arm power to stir and beat it that I went next door with the warm pot of chocolate lava, to my wonderful neighbor (she had no children of her own). She would always laugh and there she would beat and beat it with the wooden spoon until like magic-it was fudge!

i have ate this fudge since i was a little girl and i love the way my grandmother makes it theres never that sugar grainy feeling in it and she sometimes add's peanutbutter!! but how everyone makes this fudge it dont matter just as long as it tastes good and not grainy and its made from the heart!!!

Heartwarming to see all these reviews that sound so much like what I'm thinking. My memory of "this fudge" was my mom stirring it together and then yelling for daddy to "come beat the fudge". There he was so handsome, strong and tan in his Air Force t-shirt, cradling the bowl and smiling as he beat the fudge with ease. No one loved licking the spoon more than DaddySi. Thanks.

I have been searching for this recipe for a long time! It used to be on the can. Oh the lovely memories of my dear Mother making this very fudge to frost her blackberry jam cake every Thanksgiving and Christmas! Of course she made it into fudge too! So happy to find this recipe!

This Hershey Fudge recipe is the only one I use, grew up eating it and it doesn't matter if it comes out perfect every time or you have to use a spoon or break it into pieces to eat. It tastes wonderful.

I love this recipe. I do stir it while it is cooking because I like the grainy texture. Seems like the fudge my Grandmother used to make. Works great to pour over chocolate cake. We used to call it Hard Boiled Chocolate frosting. My brothers and sisters would buy, sell and trade theirs, not me. I wanted to eat my own. I always chose this for my birthday cake.

I have been making your Hershey's cocoa fudge since the '60s but adding 3 large tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter. It makes the fudge smoother and people love it. I am now diabetic, but I still make it for family and eat it myself; though I shouldn't. Does anyone know how to adapt this recipe with Splenda?

Sharon H., as cooking is really a science, the real sugar is required for the transformation from the separate ingredients into the sturdy candy. While we would all really like to have our fudge without guilt, Splenda would just not work. Nothing beats the original!

This can not be made with Splenda!! I tried and it didn't come close to getting firm. So, my sister and I poured it over ice cream, to cut the sweetness.

Remember skipping school in the 40's. my friends sister would make the fudge for us. Just celebrated my 60th high school reunion. May make some for myself. May make it to 65 reunion.

My mom would make this candy without a themometer and sometimes it was too soft or too hard, but most times came out perfect. I tried it once with a themometer and when I went to stir it the wooden spoon broke. Needless to say I never tried to make it again. LOL I make the semi sweets and condensed milk fudge. Everyone loves it and no one ever knew my failure at this fudge. This is till now!!

I was about 11 (now 65) and remember my older brothers first attempt at making this recipe. He came from the kitchen almost crying-the candy had turned into one giant hard ball that could hardly be penetrated with anything. Mom just laughed and said come on, you got to learn what to do when it don't work out right. She poured about a cup of milk over it and cooked till the hard ball dissolved then cooked as usual till a medium soft ball formed in a cup of cold water and all was well..mom always added about 3/4 cup of creamy peanut butter. Beat till the shine begins to leave and immediately spread onto a lightly buttered platter quickly.