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      Title: Martha Washington Candy
 Categories: Candy,Cookies
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
      1 lb Powdered sugar
      1 c  Butter; melted
      2 c  Pecans; coarsely chopped
      1 cn Sweetened condensed milk;
           -(not evaporated milk)
    1/4    Paraffin block (see note)
      6 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
 
  Combine sugar, butter, pecans, and milk. Roll into balls; chill.
  Melt paraffin and chocolate chips in top of double boiler over
  barely simmering water. Use forks to dip balls into chocolate, then
  let cool on tray covered with waxed paper.

  Note: You can substitute 1 tb +1 ts shortening for the paraffin.
  Place chocolate and shortening in small heat-proof bowl. Add 1" of
  very warm (100 to 110°F) water to a larger bowl. Place bowl with
  chocolate inside larger bowl and stir constantly until melted,
  taking care not to get any water in chocolate. If water cools,
  replace with more very warm water.

  Recipe by St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7/1/96

  From recipe collection assembled by the
  Alabama chapter of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
 
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