Mom's Caramels

Ingredients

  • 1/2 lb. butter
  • 2 C light corn syrup
  • 2 C sugar
  • 2 cans (15-oz. size) sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 C sifted flour
  • 1 t vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

In a heavy saucepan, melt butter. Add corn syrup and sugar. Boil for 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly. Add 1 ½ cans sweetened condensed milk. Mix flour thoroughly with remaining milk, then add to corn syrup-sugar mixture. Boil until mixture darkens and forms a medium hard ball (240 degrees). Stir constantly or mixture will stick. Add vanilla and pour in a 9x13 buttered pan. Allow to cool. Cut into 1” pieces with sharp buttered knife. Wrap pieces in small squares of wax paper.