Pralines
On Dec 4, 12:08*pm, "Storrmmee" > wrote:
> ok recipe you prefer please, i am not sure if early demensia or being
> underwhelmed when eating them has caused me to hhave no clear memory of
> eating them, but i know i must have, Lee"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
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> > "Jim Elbrecht" <> wrote in message...
> >> Leonard Blaisdell <> wrote:
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> >>> "Julie Bove" <> wrote:
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> >>>> First... *How do you pronounce them? *I grew up saying "prayleen" but I
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> >>>> only heard "prawline" or "prawleen" from other people.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>>> So... *How should they be?
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> >>>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.
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> >> C'mon y'all from south of the Mason-Dixon. * * I'm a NYer. * *I've
> >> made them a couple times and thought I'd failed. * They have come out
> >> as a gooey cookie that is *almost* grainy caramel. * * It can still be
> >> broken, but it bends quite a bit before it comes apart.
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> >> I tried 2 recipes, then figured I must be leaving out a secret step
> >> that only southerns know.
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> >> Then my daughter brought me home a bourbon/bacon/some-hot-thing
> >> praline from New Orleans. * *The texture was exactly what I'd been
> >> coming up with and had caused my disappointment.
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> >> Is that what they are *supposed* to be?
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> >> Jim
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> > I am a praline authority. *Because I say so and because friends, foes and
> > strangers say so. *The recipes have been around at least 250 years - more
> > or less in France and then New Orleans.
> > * *First, the pronunciation is praw-leen and I was going to suggest saying
> > 'praw' as in 'craw'fish but folks don't get that right either. *The origin
> > is French; neither Mexico nor China can persuade me otherwise.
> > * *Saying the name is much like puh-cahn or pee-can. *Nobody here worries
> > much about that.
> > * *As with fudge and divinity, the weather, the cook and the ingredients
> > vary. *Lots.
> > * *Putting bacon in a praline is absurd but I suppose Elvis would have
> > liked it. *Polly- Hide quoted text -
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