Martha Washingtons

Granny always made these at Christmas when Pat was a child.

by Granny–Dolores Borel

2             pounds  powdered sugar
1             cup  sweetened condensed milk
1             stick  butter
1             quart  pecans — chopped
1/2        pound  candied cherries — chopped
1             Tablespoon  vanilla

1            package  Baker’s semisweet chocolate
1/3       cake  paraffin (wax)

In a mixer, cream butter, add sugar , milk and vanilla.  Fold in cherries and pecans.  Mixture will be very stiff.  Form in small balls.

In an electric rice cooker, melt chocolate and paraffin.  Dip balls in chocolate using 2 forks. Let drip, then place on wax paper or parchment paper.

*Sometimes I cut the recipe in half because it makes so much.