Creamy New Orleans Pralines
Recipe: #22093
December 11, 2015
Categories: Pecan, Christmas, Gluten-Free Low Fat, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Buttermilk, Gifts, Kosher Dairy, more
"From Brad Bryant at Cajun Recipes"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (45.9 g)
- Calories 126.3
- Total Fat - 0.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.2 g
- Cholesterol - 1.3 mg
- Sodium - 83.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 31.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.1 g
- Sugars - 30.6 g
- Protein - 0.5 g
- Calcium - 14.8 mg
- Iron - 0 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine sugar, buttermilk, corn syrup and salt in a very large pan and bring to a nice rolling boil. Add soda (it will foam considerably when soda is added), stir and cook until soft-ball is formed when dropped in cold water. Or softball stage on thermometer. Then remove from heat and add vanilla. Beat until color changes and candy thickens. Stir in pecans.
Step 2
Drop by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet or wax paper. (Do it quickly before the candy hardens)
Tips
No special items needed.