Processes: How Are Milk Duds Made?
Check the concession stand of your local movie theater and you're sure to see a familiar yellow box of candy. A Milk Dud is a chocolate-coated caramel candy invented in 1928. The original Milk Dud recipe was the creation of Philo J. Holloway, but today Milk Duds are manufactured by Hershey's. Does this Spark an idea?
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Ingredients
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Milk Duds are so named because the original recipe consisted mostly of milk, and it was difficult to shape the product into perfect circles. The current recipe is much more complex. Hershey's makes Milk Duds with corn syrup, sugar, vegetable oil, nonfat milk, dextrose, brown sugar, whey, diglycerides, milk fat, salt, soy, tapioca dextrin and artificial flavor. You can make similar chocolate caramel candies at home with fewer ingredients. A recipe for caramel asks for butter, light brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, light corn syrup, salt and vanilla extract. You can buy semi-sweet chocolate chips and melt them to create the candy coating.
Tools
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When Hershey's manufactures Milk Duds, it uses complex machinery and production lines. Large mechanical mixers combine the ingredients for the filling. The filling is formed into pieces, and a machine drizzles melted chocolate onto each piece as it comes down a conveyer belt. You can make Milk Duds at home with simpler tools. You will need a small pot, thermometer, spoon, baking sheet and wax paper.
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Creating Milk Duds
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Use the caramel recipe to create the center. Let the caramel cool, then form it into a ball. While the caramel is cooling, melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in a pot. Dip each piece of caramel in the chocolate, then let the pieces cool on the wax paper.
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