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"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>>
>> 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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>
> That sounds right. Add some pecan halves and large pieces and it should
> be good. Here's a recipe I saved a while back that looks right, but I
> haven't made it yet. Notice it's made with water instead of milk and has
> no corn syrup:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Josephine's Pralines
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> One day we went out to visit a cemetary in New Orleans called The St.
> Louis Cemetary. All the folks in the St. Louis cemetary are buried above
> ground in stone crypts because of the water table in New Orleans being so
> close to the ground. Sheryl Ann said when she went she was going to be
> cremated and have her ashes scattered over Hink’s Shopping Mall, because
> that way she could shop for comfortable shoes for all time, what with
> having bunyuns and all. I said she’d be ashes then and what would she be
> needing shoes for, and she just gave me a dirty look. One of the tombs at
> the cemetary was the tomb of Marie Leveau, who was a famous voodoo
> priestess who lived in New Orleans. It is said if you knock three times
> and draw three X’s on her tomb with chalk and ask her for a wish, she will
> grant it. Sheryl Ann did just that, excepting she didn’t have any chalk so
> she used an eyebrow pencil instead, and she asked her for a pair of
> comfortable shoes. Then she asked to win the Fantasy Five the next time
> she played the lotto back home and asked me if I thought she should make
> three more X’s on the tomb. I said I figured she was better safe than
> sorry, particularly seeing as how she used an eyebrow pencil instead of
> chalk, because if she didn’t she might very well get only one comfortable
> shoe, and wouldn’t that be a fine how do you do. We went back to Lu Lu’s
> where Josephine had a nice batch of pralines waiting for us. We told her
> about our visit to the cemetary and Sheryl Ann’s wish for comfortable
> shoes and her eyes got very wide and she wrote an address on a piece of
> paper. After we ate the pralines we decided to visit the address, which
> was in the French Quarter, and it turned out to be Marie’s Orthopedic
> Shoes, where Sheryl Ann got a very nice pair that did her feet well for
> the rest of the trip.
>
> Josephine’s Pralines
>
> 1/4 Cup water
> 2T margarine
> 1 Cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
> 1 Cup Confectioner's sugar
> 1/2 teasp vanilla extract
> 1 Cup chopped pecans
>
> Place large towel on counter w/wax paper on top; In medium saucepan, add
> water and butter; Bring to boil; Stir in sugars; Bring back to boil; Boil
> and stir 1 minute only; Remove from heat;
> Stir in vanilla and pecans; Beat by hand until it begins to thicken
> slightly; Note: DO NOT OVER BEAT! candy will harden too soon; Immediately
> drop from teaspoon on to wax paper; Cool and store in covered container;


This is a recipe for old-fashioned, sugary pralines. These aren't creamy
pralines.


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