Doris's Pralines

Doris's Pralines
Categories: Cajun, Candies
Yield: 12 servings

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).