Title: Chocolate covered cherries #5
 Categories: Candy
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
    1/4 lb Oleo or butter
      1 cn Eagle Brand milk; (no other
           -will do)
      2    Boxes powdered sugar
      1 tb Vanilla
 
  Mix ingredients together. Chill this real good for a few hours or
  overnight. Then butter hands and roll into balls about 1-inch in
  diameter. Place on cookie sheets and return to refrigerator to chill
  again 3 or 4 hours. While waiting, melt good in double boiler 1 large
  package semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/8 pound paraffin wax.
  
  Now take chilled balls from refrigerator, a few at a time, and put in
  palm of hand and make an indentation with thumb. Then place a well
  drained maraschino cherry in hole and roll in buttered hands until
  cherry is covered. Return to refrigerator to chill again for several
  hours. When chilled until firm, take out a few at a time and stick
  toothpick into ball with cherry in and dip into melted chocolate and
  paraffin wax. Then set on buttered wax paper.
  
  Remove toothpick and with a spoon, take small amount of melted
  chocolate and swirl over top to cover hole from toothpick. Now you
  have chocolate covered cherries that are simply delicious. Makes
  approximately fifty.