Homemade Fudge - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
2/3 c. Hershey's cocoa
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. milk
1/4 c. butter or margarine
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preparation

Butter 8 or 9-inch square pan.
Set aside.
In heavy 4-quart saucepan, combine sugar, cocoa and salt.
Stir in milk.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
Boil without stirring, to 234\u00b0 (soft-ball stage) or until syrup, when dropped into very cold water forms a soft ball which flattens when removed from water.
(Bulb of candy thermometer should not rest on bottom of saucepan.)
Remove from heat.
Add butter and vanilla.
Do not stir.
Cool at room temperature to 110\u00b0 (lukewarm).
Beat with wooden spoon until fudge thickens and loses some of its gloss.
Quickly spread into prepared pan.
Cool; cut into squares, about 3 dozen candies.