fudge

[preston]

hello fellow stoners, i'm a newbie to this delightful site and thought i'd share this recipe out of my alice b toklas cook book, first published 1954, but recipe is probably much older. alice was the life partner of gertrude stein and collected recipes from the late 1900s to i guess the late '40s from europe and america. i've never had enough spare hash to make these, but in a perfect world i'd probably have a jarful on the kitchen bench. i've repeated it word for word for historical interest.

 

HASCHICH FUDGE (which anyone could whip up on a rainy day)

This is the food of Paradise-of Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather an is indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by 'un evanouissement reveille.'

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whold nutmeg, 4 average sticks cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates*, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled int a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties, but the variety know as canibus sativa grows a a common weed, often unrecognised, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called canibus indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

 

*i'm sure no pun was intended, p.