Chocolate Covered Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 boxes confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
4 c. pecans, chopped
1/4 lb. block paraffin
1 stick butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 (8 oz.) pkg. bitter or semi-sweet chocolate

Preparation

Cream sugar, butter, vanilla and milk.
Add nuts.
Roll into balls size of a walnut, dipping hands into powdered sugar as you roll balls.
Melt chocolate and paraffin over low heat.
Dip balls into this mixture, one at a time, holding each with a toothpick. Drop on waxed paper.
Candy is moist inside with a hard coating of chocolate.
It stays fresh for several weeks.
Makes 75.