Difficutly: moderate
Time: 45 Min
Portion: 12 servings
Ingredients:
- 2 C sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 C buttermilk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 C pecan halves
Directions:
- Mix sugar, soda and buttermilk in heavy saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat to softball stage {234 degrees}
- remove from heat andadd vanilla and pecans
- begin beating immediately
- Beat until candy begins to thicken
- Drop by tsp on waxed paper on greased cookie sheet.
- cool
- If mixture becomes too thick before all is dropped stir in one of two drops of warm water.
Notes:
Makes 30 small patties