I'm a voracious collector of Mount Holyoke memorabilia. A 1908 scrapbook in my collection has a recipe for Opera Cream:
Opera Cream. 2 cups gran. sugar 3/4 cup milk (condensed if desired) 1/4 cake chocolate. vanilla & nuts if desired. Boil the sugar, milk and chocolate until it gets the least bit sticky when you put it in water. Then put it aside to cool. When it is fairly cool, put in vanilla & nuts & beat it until your arms break off. Then pour it into a pan or drop it on buttered pan or paper If you don't succeed at first, try, try again.
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29/11/11 04:26 (UTC)Opera Cream. 2 cups gran. sugar 3/4 cup milk (condensed if desired) 1/4 cake chocolate. vanilla & nuts if desired. Boil the sugar, milk and chocolate until it gets the least bit sticky when you put it in water. Then put it aside to cool. When it is fairly cool, put in vanilla & nuts & beat it until your arms break off. Then pour it into a pan or drop it on buttered pan or paper If you don't succeed at first, try, try again.
Here's a 1904 article about the college girl and her chafing dish parties (where fudge was made): http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/books/text/whc.html