Coconut Cream Candy


11/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons butter
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup shredded coconut
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Put butter into granite saucepan;
when melted, add sugar and milk,
and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Heat to boiling-point, and boil twelve minutes;
remove from fire, add coconut and vanilla,
and beat until creamy and mixture begins
to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan.
Pour at once into a buttered pan,
cool slightly, and mark in squares.
One-half cup nut meat, broken in pieces,
may be used in place of coconut.