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"Baytown Area Voices"
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Grandma Cutbirth's
Date Nut
Candy
Ingredients:
4 cups sugar 1/4 cup white Karo syrup 3 or 4
cups pecans 2 cups dates finely chopped 1 cup milk 1/2 cup
margarine
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions:
Cook sugar, Karo syrup, milk, and margarine until it
forms a hard ball in a cup of cold water.
Set aside and add dates,
nuts, vanilla, and then
stir until it is cooler.
It must be
firm and hard to stir.
Roll out on a wet
cloth and chill in frig.
Remove from cloth and cut into VERY SMALL squares on
wax paper (It's very sweet).
Store wrapped in wax paper in jar
or can at room temperature.
May be
frozen for long term storage..
Copyright 2008 by Don D. Morrison. All Worldwide
Rights Reserved.
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