Peanut Butter Fudge

In later life when grandma and grandpa went to Florida each winter, grandma would get together with friends and relatives and for several days they would make fudge to send out as Christmas gifts. Now grandma loved to eat as well as bake and cook, and I don't remember a whole lot of fudge being mailed north . . .

Boil together 2 cups granulated sugar, two Tbsp. peanut butter, and 1/2 cup milk. Cook these ingredients until the mixture will form a soft ball in cold water. Add a pinch of salt before taking from stove. Then add 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract and beat until creamy. Cool in buttered tins and cut into squares.

To the bottom of this recipe grandma added the word good and underlined it. She also added the date May 7, 1920. I don't know why she dated some of her recipes but I'm glad she did. I personally find it fascinating to have found a little booklet that she hand-wrote these recipes and to recognize some of them were later copied out onto recipe cards and put into her red recipe box. These were obviously tried and true recipes that she used her whole life.