Chocolate Covered Cherries - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 lb. butter
1 c. sweetened condensed milk
2 lb. powdered sugar
16 oz. jar maraschino cherries
12 oz. chocolate chips
1/2 bar paraffin wax
coconut, fine shredded

Preparation

Melt butter and remove from heat; add milk and sugar, stirring until fondant is easy to work.
Chill.
Drain cherries letting dry for 1 hour.
Take a small amount of fondant pressing in palm until you have a circle large enough to envelope one cherry.
Work it smooth and place on wax paper; chill.
Place a toothpick in each covered cherry.
In a double boiler, melt chips and wax.
Dip cherries once then again and remove toothpick sealing hole with a quick dip into the surface of the chocolate.
Keep cherries in airtight container for a few weeks so fondant will turn to syrup. This recipe came from my first Richland, Washington, neighbor, Jeanette Stanley.