This was called Vassar fudge by Maria Parloa, who published the recipe in a booklet distributed by Walter Baker & Co. in 1905. It was reprinted in the American Heritage Cookbook (1964). The headnote for the recipe said: “Fudge was popular in the late nineteenth century in women’s colleges. Sometimes cooked over the gaslight, which hung from the center of the ceiling, it was used as an excuse for parties after ‘lig
