"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> First... How do you pronounce them? I grew up saying "prayleen" but I
>> have
>> only heard "prawline" or "prawleen" from other people.
>
>> I have looked up various recipes and I can't really tell what the texture
>> should be from those but the shape and look of them is exactly like I
>> remembered.
>>
>> So... How should they be?
>
> Southerners should answer this. To me "prayleens" are pecans in a stiff
> caramel coating. I'm from Nevada and couldn't discern a real southern
> praline with a gun to my head. I remember when my parents got sugary
> pecan lumps for Christmas that were called pralines. Come to think of
> it, they weren't caramel.

Stiff! That's the word I was searching for. These were not stiff.