3 c. sugar
1 c. hot water
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla or almond extract
Pinch of salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 stick BUTTER

Boil sugar, salt and water to soft ball stage. Add soda, milk and butter, a small bit at a time. (Add milk slowly by the teaspoonful.) Keep mixture boiling. DO NOT STIR! Cook to hard ball stage (it turns brown). Pour onto buttered marble slab or porcelain table or very large platter.

Add vanilla. As soon as it is cool enough to handle, butter hands and pull candy as long as possible (don't let the vanilla drip out). It turns white. When it loses its gloss, pull out quickly into a rope and cut with buttered scissors. (If it goes to sugar because you pulled it too long - make fudge!)

Wrap separately. If successful, it will turn creamy in a few hours.