This is my grandmother's recipe and she made it every Christmas. It's one of my dad's favorites.
Grandma's Penuche
3 cups of brown sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups chopped nuts
Put milk and sugar in a heavy pan and cook over medium heat while stirring constantly. Cook to the soft boil stage either using a thermometer or the cold water test method. Remove from heat, add the butter and set aside to cool to a luke warm temperature. Add vanilla and nuts once cooled. Then beat, and beat, and beat until it is light in color and almost set. Spread into a buttered pan. cut once it is set.
This is what it looks like as it is boiling.
