Aunt Bill'S Brown Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 pt. white sugar
1 pt. milk or Milnot
1/4 lb. butter or oleo
1/4 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. pecan meats

Preparation

Pour 1 pint sugar into heavy aluminum or iron skillet and place over low heat.
Begin stirring with wooden spoon and keep sugar moving so it will not scorch at all.
It will take over 1/2 an hour to completely melt this sugar and at no time let it smoke or cook so fast that it turns dark.
It should be about the color of light brown sugar syrup.
As soon as you have the sugar started to heat in skillet, pour the remaining 2 pints of sugar together with pint of milk into deep, heavy kettle and set it over low heat to cook along slowly while melting sugar in skillet.