This chocolate sauce is synonymous with my childhood summers, Christmases, or Spring Break. Basically, any time we went to visit my maternal grandparents on their farm. It was a nightly ritual that after dinner the 5 gallon bucket of Schwan’s vanilla ice cream was retrieved from the cellar, placed in the kitchen sink, & various family members would arrive throughout the night to visit, joke, laugh, & play cards. Someone would inevitably man the stove to create the sauce & one by one, we’d scoop out our ice cream & drizzle with the 1, 2, 3 sauce.
Ingredients:
- 1 12oz can of evaporated milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
Preparation:
Add & stir together all ingredients in a medium size sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until it comes to a boil; then reduce temperature to low. Cook for 5 minutes more, stirring constantly. Enjoy!
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Angie I so appreciate your recipes and stories! We had a similar ice cream ritual with grandparents, though only on weekends we traveled back to the farms to see them. Happy memories.
Thank you, Leigh Ann! The older I get, the more these childhood recipes mean to me. I’m compelled to write them down, securing not only the recipes, but the memories too.