Chocolate Covered Cherries - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. powdered sugar
1/4 c. butter or margarine
1/8 tsp. salt
3 beaten egg whites
2 small jars maraschino cherries
1 lb. baking chocolate
1/4 lb. paraffin

Preparation

Drain cherries.
Cream the butter, sugar and salt.
Add beaten egg whites; knead to mix.
Pinch a small portion of mixture and form a small ball around a cherry.
When all the cherries are covered with the sugar-butter mixture, melt the chocolate and paraffin together.
Dip the balls into the chocolate using hat pin or toothpick; set to drain on waxed paper.
After all are dipped, use a small spoon to drip chocolate on top to cover toothpick hole.