Mountain Measures · 1974

Buttermilk Pralines

Name: Buttermilk Pralines
Ingredients: 2 cups white sugar; 1 cup buttermilk; 1 tsp. baking soda; 1/8 tsp. salt; 12 Tbsp. butter or margarine; 1 tsp. vanilla; 2 cups broken pecans

From Mrs. Samuel W. Channell. The book didn't print a hometown.

CourseCandies
Ingredients7
Steps4

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Step 1: Mix sugar, buttermilk, soda and salt in a heavy 3-quart saucepan.
Step 2: Cook over medium heat to the soft-ball stage. Cool.
Step 3: Beat in butter and vanilla and stir in pecans.
Step 4: Drop by tablespoons onto wax paper to cool. Work fast.

From the cook

If it starts to harden in the pan, add a few drops of buttermilk, reheat and stir well.

What we changed or couldn’t read (1)

12 Tbsp. butter (1½ sticks) printed as shown; may have been '1½ Tbsp.' garbled, but left as printed.

Buttermilk Pralines

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