Doris' pralines recipe is a southern classic. It calls for just a few simple ingredients: sugar, butter, pecans, and cream. The result is a rich, buttery praline that melts in your mouth.
Mix all ingredients except butter, vanilla, and pecans.
Cook on low fire until the mixture forms a soft ball incold water.
Remove from fire.
Add butter, vanilla, andpecans, and beat until the mixture holds its shape.
Spoononto buttered wax paper (Add old newspaper under your waxpaper.
)If candy gets hard before all is spooned out, add a littlewater, and heat over.
Or you can let it stand on low heatwhile spooning out.
If you have never tasted freshly made pralines, made fromfresh Louisiana pecans, you have just never really lived.
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Every Christmas Eve we go by to see them afterwatching the bonfires that are burned on the levees alongthe Mississippi River to light the way for Papa Noel (Santa Claus).