Chocolate Covered Cherries - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 lb. (1 stick) margarine
2 lb. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3 (10 oz.) jars maraschino cherries
1 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips
1/2 bar paraffin wax

Preparation

Combine milk, butter, sugar and vanilla.
Mix well and let stand for 1 hour in a cool place.
Press mix around each cherry and let dry.
Combine chocolate chips and paraffin wax in double boiler.
Heat until melted; cool slightly.
Dip balls in mixture. Place on waxed paper until hard.
Age for 2 weeks (do not refrigerate).
Makes 75 to 100.