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- From: <kclemens@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Pralines
- Message-ID: <9311110014.AA01076@azure.engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 19:14:54 -0500
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- Requested by Tami Askren:
-
- (From "The Walnut Grove Alumni Cookbook--1905-1966",
- a collection of recipes from Hamilton County, Indiana)
-
- Pralines
-
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup packed lt. brown sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3/4 stick (6 Tbsp.) butter
- 1-1/2 cups pecans
-
- Mix all ingredients, bring to softball stage (238-240 degrees).
- Remove from heat and stir until mixture cools and thickens.
- Spoon out on buttered waxed paper or buttered aluminum foil.
- if poured too early, it will not dry. Should be thick, creamy,
- and cloudy and nuts staying suspended before spooning out.
-
- (This recipe is from "The Walnut Grove Alumni Cookbook--
- 1905-1966," a collection of recipes from Hamilton County,
- Indiana. The woman who donated this recipe mentioned that
- she got it from a chef at the New Orleans School of Cooking.)
-
-
-
- MAMA'S PRALINES (from Chachie's New Orleans Cooking)
-
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 2 Tbsps. margarine
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
- 2 cups whole pecans
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup very cold water (to test "hard-ball" stage)
- 1 tsp. oil (for cookie sheets)
-
- In a large saucepan, combine above ingredients except water. Stir
- constantly with a wooden spoon over a medium-low flame. Mixture should be at a
- low boil. Stir bottom and sides continuously. Cook for about 4 minutes until
- a drop of the mixture forms a "hard-ball" drop when placed in a cup of cold
- water, or mixture reaches 260 degrees F. Remove from stove and beat briskly
- for 2 minutes until mixture cools, thickens, and becomes creamy.
-
- On large pieces of waxed paper, aluminum foil, or oiled cookie sheets, drop
- 2 or 3 pecans with a tablespoon of mixture for each praline. When all of
- mixture has been poured, let cool thoroughly. Store in airtight containers.
-
- Serves 10 - yields forty 2-inch pralines.
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-