Recipe - Buttermilk Pecan Pralines

3 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Pinch of Salt
1 cup Buttermilk
Three fourths cup White Corn Syrup
2 tablespoon Butter
2 cup Pecan Halves

In a large saucepan, (5 or 6 Quart size) combine
sugar, baking soda, salt, buttermilk and corn syrup.
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to
mediumlow, continue cooking until mixture becomes
caramelcolored and reaches soft ball stage (238
degrees). Remove from heat, add butter and pecan
halves. Beat until thick enough to drop from a spoon
onto waxed paper. If mixture becomes too hard, return
to heat and add small amount of water. Stir until
smooth. Yield: 44 to 48 Pralines. *** Variation ***
Reduce sugar to 2 cups. Omit corn syrup. Increase
butter to Three fourths cup, add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Include
butter in cooking stage. Add vanilla with pecans.
Source: Cook 'EM Horns cookbook, The Exstudents
Association, Univ. of Texas, Austin.

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