Pralines
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
1 batch
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup light corn syrup
- 1 cup chopped pecans
directions
- Combine sugar, brown sugar, butter, water and light corn syrup.
- Using a candy thermometer, and without stirring, cook over medium heat to the'soft-ball stage,' or 234°F*.
- Cool to 200°F without stirring.
- Stir in pecans and return to heat, stirring until thickened.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper and cool until firm.
- *'Soft-ball'describes the point at which a drop of boiling syrup immersed in cold water, when removed, forms a soft ball that flattens of its own accord but does not ooze.
- On a candy thermometer, the soft-ball stage is between 234° and 240°F.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Steve_G
Fort Myers, Florida