Papa T’s Old Fashioned Fudge

• 2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup nuts

Combine sugar, milk cocoa, corn syrup & salt in heavy, thick saucepan. Stir over medium heat until chocolate melts & sugar dissolves. Cook to 234° (not 233- not 235).

Stir occasionally. Remove from heat.

Add butter. Cool to lukewarm without stirring (about 10-20 minutes depending on recipe size.) Add vanilla and beat until thick and no longer glossy (about 10-15 mins.) Quickly stir in nuts.

Quickly pour into buttered dinner plates. When set, cut into square Note: sometimes it is ready to cut within minutes, other times you have to wait 30 minutes or an hour or longer. (I have wait overnight) but … regardless, cut before it gets real hard -otherwise, it will crumble.