Caramels - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 c. butter or margarine
    2 c. light corn syrup
    2 c. sugar
    2 (15 oz.) cans sweetened condensed milk
    1/2 c. flour
    1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation
    In heavy saucepan, melt butter.
    Add corn syrup and sugar. Boil for 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.
    Add 1 1/2 cans of sweetened condensed milk.
    Mix flour thoroughly with remaining milk; then add to corn syrup-sugar mixture.
    Boil until mixture darkens and forms a medium-hard ball (240\u00b0).
    Stir constantly or mixture will stick.
    Add vanilla and pour into 9 x 13 x 2-inch pan.
    Cool.
    Cut into 1-inch pieces with sharp, buttered knife.
    Wrap squares in waxed paper.

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