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.