It’s no fair fudging

 
You can’t fudge with this.
She would take a stick of real butter and my mom would smear the grade A butter around in the bottom of her large shallow serving dish.  What would happen after cooking up the fudgy mix is pour the thick mixture in to the buttered serving dish, then place in the fridge, and waa laa, chocolate fudge.  Chocolate fudge just in time for Christmas.
But wait a minute.  First it all started with my youngest sister having to cut marshmallows into three or four pieces.  Yes, the same marshmallows one would roast over an open fire.  But then came later the mini-marshmallows.  Just toss the minis into the boiling chocolate mix and watch it morph into real fudge.  It sort of sped up the process.  Then came a few Christmases later a big plastic jar of thick gooey marshmallow goo.  That really sped up the boiling fudge process.
Again, my mom was making her famous Christmas fudge with walnuts.  Something she did either before Thanksgiving or before Christmas.  Then several pieces would show up in our Christmas stockings.  But now, no one is doing this.  Mom, please come back.  What did you do with the recipe?  Merry Christmas.