4 c Sugar
5 c Pecans
4 tb Karo syrup
1 tb Butter
1 cn Condensed milk
1 ts Vanilla
1 cn Water
Mix all ingredients except butter, vanilla, and pecans.
Cook on low fire until the mixture forms a soft ball in
cold water. Remove from fire. Add butter, vanilla,
and pecans, and beat until the mixture holds its
shape. Spoon onto buttered wax paper (Add old
newspaper under your wax paper.)
If candy gets hard before all is spooned out, add a
little water, and heat over. Or you can let it stand
on low heat while spooning out.
If you have never tasted freshly made pralines, made
from fresh Louisiana pecans, you have just never
really lived. Justin Wilson says, "Doris is the much
better half (wife) of my good friend Gordon Martin,
the sheriff of St. James Parish. Every Christmas Eve
we go by to see them after watching the bonfires that
are burned on the levees along the Mississippi River
to light the way for Papa Noel (Santa Claus).
