Chocolate Date Fudge
| Sugar (granulated), | 2 cups |
| Milk, | ½ cup |
| Chocolate, | 2 squares |
| Butter, | 1 tablespoon |
| Flavoring (vanilla), | 1 teaspoon |
| Dates (cut in small pieces), | ½ cup |
After the sugar, milk, chocolate and butter were on the stove cooking Betsey prepared her dates. She removed the large stone and cut each date into four pieces. By the time the candy had cooked so that a little of it when dropped in cold water formed a soft ball, Betsey removed it from the fire and placed the saucepan in a pan of cold water; then she added the dates and vanilla, beat the candy until it was thick like heavy cream and poured at once into a buttered pan and marked in squares.