Martha Washington Candy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Cream the confectioners sugar, oleo or butter, milk and vanilla.
Add nuts.
Roll into balls the size of a walnut.
(Use powdered sugar to drop hands into as you roll the balls.)
Melt the chocolate and paraffin over low heat.
Dip balls into this mixture, one piece at a time, holding each with a toothpick.
Drop on wax paper.