Recipe: Old Fashioned Caramels

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Old Fashioned Caramels
Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936

2 1/2 tbsp Butter
2 cup Brown Sugar
2 tbsp Molasses
1/2 cup Condensed Milk
4 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Chopped Nuts

Melt the butter, add the sugar, molasses and the milk and bring to a boil. Cut the chocolate in small pieces and add, stirring constantly until the chocolate is melted. Boil until the caramel forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Add the extract and the nuts and pour into a greased pan. Cool a little and when fairly firm, cut in squares.