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Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy
Ingredients
6 cups sugar
1 pint milk
1/2 cup butter
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla
2 lbs. nuts
Directions
Put 2 cups sugar into a pan over very low heat. Stir often with a wooden spoon for about 30 minutes until light brown. Mix 4 cups sugar with milk over low heat in another pan simultaneously. When sugar is melted, pour into mixture in a fine stream, stirring constantly.
Cook to hard ball stage, turn off heat then add baking soda and stir vigorously as it foams. Add butter and stir until melted. Cool for 20 minutes. Add vanilla and beat until thick, heavy and dull. Add nuts and mix. Turn into pans, cool slightly and cut.