Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Dixie Crystals Light Brown Sugar
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- Pinch salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup broken pecans
Directions
- Mix brown sugar, corn syrup, salt, milk and butter in saucepan. Cook, stirring only until sugar dissolves and mixture reaches soft ball stage (238° F).
- Remove from heat; cool at room temperature, without stirring until lukewarm.
- Add vanilla, beat until mixture holds its shape and starts to lose its gloss. Stir in nuts and spread in buttered pan.
- Cool and cut in squares.
Dixie Crystals Insight
Vintage recipe from 1957 "Alice in Brown Sugar Land" cookbook. Tested by Gerry Speirs @Foodness Gracious.