martha washingtons

Name: Martha Washingtons
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 quart(s) pecans chopped (4 cups); 1 stick(s) butter (1/2 cup); 1 can(s) sweetened condensed milk; 2 box(es) powdered sugar ( 2 pounds or about 8 cups); 1 can(s) coconut (3 1/2 ounces or 1 1/3 cups)***see note; chocolate to dip

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Melanie B

Kennesaw, GA

Updated on Sep 1, 2011

Every Christmas my MIL makes these...it wouldn't be the same without them. I think these are my FIL's favorite home made candy. LOL I have put regular measurements in parenthesis.

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Ingredients

1 quart pecans chopped (4 cups)
1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 boxes powdered sugar ( 2 pounds or about 8 cups)
1 can coconut (3 1/2 ounces or 1 1/3 cups)***see note
chocolate to dip

How To Make martha washingtons

Step 1

Pour milk over ingredients and mix. Chill overnight.

Step 2

Roll into balls about the size of marbles.
Step 3

Dip the balls into two melted large bags of chocolate chips blended with 1/2 block of cooking paraffin. Really, any sort of dipping chocolate will do. I often use chocolate almond bark.
Step 4

NOTE***Back in the day (and I'm told even still in some places) coconut came in a can. It is grated coconut, not coconut milk. I entered the recipe exactly as my MIL gave it to me, the put the actual measurements in parenthesis.
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