When you experience a taste of Beef Fat Fudge—an exceptionally decadent fudge, flexing rendered beef fat where typical recipes peddle butter—you experience a chemistry that is subtly surprising, and arresting. It’s an equation that reads ill on paper, but when realized... man, is it ever right. It’s a nuanced compounding of strengths—unctuous umami, milky sweetness, and, hello, chocolate—that is as graceful as it is powerful. You could easily rattle off all the reasons why (this less familiar form of) cow grease belongs nowhere near your holiday fudge, and I sure can counter you with all the reasons it does. But you likely won’t understand a one of them until you open wide and taste it. Read more... |
