A Forest Ranger's Cookbook - Candy

from The Lookout Cookbook, 1938. U.S. Forest Service, Region One

CANDY

Fudge
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon butter
4 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup canned milk

Mix sugar and cocoa, add milk. Place on stove and stir until sugar is dissolved. Let boil until a very few drops from the spoon dropped in cold water form a soft ball. Add butter. Remove from stove and let cool. Do not move pan while cooling or fudge will become sugary. When outside of pan is cold, add vanilla and beat until creamy. Pour in buttered pan and let get hard.

Panocha
3 cups brown sugar or browned white sugar
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla

Put sugar and milk into a pan and cook to the soft-ball stage, remove from the fire, add butter and vanilla, and cool without stirring. When it is lukewarm, beat until it is creamy. Stir in nut meats if you have these. Pour in buttered pans and when hardened mark into squares.