This is a family recipe, though I’m not going to suggest it is unique. My great Aunt was a governess and tutor and used to make it for her charges. She passed the recipe on to my grandmother and she used to make if for my brother and I when we visited the north to see her and granddad. This accounts for our family’s name of “Simon’s Favourite Fudge: Simon is older than me but when he was just speaking we would arrive in Stockton and he would apparently ask if any had been made, but he would ask with the limited vocabulary of a 3 year old. Fudge is easier to say than Caramel chocolate shortcake! Later my mother made this in industrial quantities for my brother and me to take back to boarding school with us.
The original recipe uses margarine (it is only for the children, after all) and a “thin coating of chocolate” (it's expensive, you know).
Millionaire’s Shortbread
Base
4oz Butter
2oz Sugar
4oz Self Raising Flour
Mix all in a bowl to form sticky dough; spread this dough out using your fingers into a high sided Swiss roll tin and bake at gas mark 4 until its golden brown. Allow to cool before adding caramel.
Caramel
4oz Butter
1sm tin Condensed Milk
1tblsp Golden syrup
3oz Sugar
Place all the ingredients in a pan and place on a medium heat. Bring all the ingredients together and very gently boil, stirring all the time, until it’s a golden brown. Pour over the base and allow to cool and set.
Chocolate
6-8oz Dark chocolate
2oz White chocolate
Melt both of the chocolates in separate bowls and pour the dark chocolate over the caramel. Take the white chocolate and, using a fork flick it over the top of the dark chocolate and allow to set. Cut up before everything is set hard.
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