Buttermilk Pralines
Recipe: #28299
October 02, 2017
Categories:
"A classic in New Orleans"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (24.8 g)
- Calories 94.7
- Total Fat - 5.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.9 g
- Cholesterol - 2.4 mg
- Sodium - 12.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 12.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 11.7 g
- Protein - 0.8 g
- Calcium - 12.4 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Butter the sides of a heavy 2-quart saucepan.
Step 2
In the saucepan combine brown sugar and buttermilk.
Step 3
Cook over medium-high heat to boiling, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to dissolve sugar. Carefully clip candy thermometer to pan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until thermometer registers 234 degree F, soft-ball stage.
Step 4
Remove saucepan from heat.
Step 5
Add the 2 tablespoons butter, but do not stir. Cool, without stirring, to 150 degree F.
Step 6
Remove candy thermometer from saucepan.
Step 7
Immediately stir in pecans.
Step 8
Beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until candy is just beginning to thicken, but is still glossy.
Step 9
Quickly drop the candy from a teaspoon onto a baking sheet lined with waxed paper.
Step 10
If the candy becomes too stiff to drop easily from the spoon, stir in a few drops of hot water.
Step 11
Store tightly covered.
Tips
No special items needed.