Grandmother’s Date Nut Roll Recipe
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Name: Grandmother’s Date Nut Roll Recipe
Ingredients: 3 cups granulated sugar; ¾ cup whole milk; 1 cup butter (2 sticks); 8 - 10 ounces dried dates, chopped; 1 cup chopped pecans; 1 teaspoon vanilla

You need 6 Ingredients

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup chopped pecans

8 - 10 ounces dried dates, chopped

1 cup butter (2 sticks)

¾ cup whole milk

3 cups granulated sugar

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Stir milk, sugar and ½ cup (1 stick) of butter together in a heavy bottom pan over medium high heat. Add dates. Stir constantly while cooking until the temperature reaches 235 on a candy thermometer or when drops of the mixture into a bowl of cold water reach a soft ball stage.
Line four baking sheets with parchment paper.

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