Title: Doris's Pralines
Categories: Cajun Candy Ethnic
Yield: 12 Servings
| 4 | c | Sugar |
| 4 | tb | Karo syrup |
| 1 | cn | Condensed milk |
| 1 | cn | Water |
| 5 | c | Pecans |
| 1 | tb | Butter |
| 1 | ts | Vanilla |
Mix all ingredients except butter, vanilla, and pecans. Cook on low fire
until the mixture forms a soft ball in cold water. Remove from fire. Add
butter, vanilla, and pecans, and beat until the mixture holds its shape.
Spoon onto buttered wax paper (Add old newspaper under your wax paper.) If
candy gets hard before all is spooned out, add a little water, and heat
over. Or you can let it stand on low heat while spooning out. If you have
never tasted freshly made pralines, made from fresh Louisiana pecans, you
have just never really lived. Justin Wilson says, "Doris is the much better
half (wife) of my good friend Gordon Martin, the sheriff of St. James
Parish. Every Christmas Eve we go by to see them after watching the
bonfires that are burned on the levees along the Mississippi River to light
the way for Papa Noel (Santa Claus).