Date Loaf Candy

3 cups sugar

1 ½ cups milk

1 lb. Dates, chopped

2 Tbsp. butter

1 tsp. Vanilla

1 ½ cups chopped pecans

Cook sugar, milk and dates to a soft ball stage.  Add butter and cool to lukewarm.  Add nuts and vanilla.  Beat until thicken and drop a teaspoon at a time onto wax paper.

This is also one that Mama-T used to make all the time.