Everyday Fudge

(Recipe circa 1919)

2 squares of chocolate
3/4 cup milk
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Cut chocolate in small pieces, put in saucepan with milk and sugar over low heat, and stir until chocolate melts. Continue cooking until a teaspoon of syrup will form a soft ball when dropped in cold water.

Remove from heat, add butter without stirring and set in a pan of cold water. When lukewarm, take the pan from the cold water, add vanilla and beat until it thickens. Turn into a buttered pan before it sets and let cool.

" NOTE "
One fourth cup of chopped nuts or raisins may be added while beating. Or a cup of marshmallows cut in pieces may be beaten in.