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Josephine's Pralines
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One day we went out to visit a cemetary in New Orleans called The St. Louis Cemetary. All the folks in the St. Louis cemetary are buried above ground in stone crypts because of the water table in New Orleans being so close to the ground. Sheryl Ann said when she went she was going to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over Hink’s Shopping Mall, because that way she could shop for comfortable shoes for all time, what with having bunyuns and all. I said she’d be ashes then and what would she be needing shoes for, and she just gave me a dirty look. One of the tombs at the cemetary was the tomb of Marie Leveau, who was a famous voodoo priestess who lived in New Orleans. It is said if you knock three times and draw three X’s on her tomb with chalk and ask her for a wish, she will grant it. Sheryl Ann did just that, excepting she didn’t have any chalk so she used an eyebrow pencil instead, and she asked her for a pair of comfortable shoes. Then she asked to win the Fantasy Five the next time she played the lotto back home and asked me if I thought she should make three more X’s on the tomb. I said I figured she was better safe than sorry, particularly seeing as how she used an eyebrow pencil instead of chalk, because if she didn’t she might very well get only one comfortable shoe, and wouldn’t that be a fine how do you do. We went back to Lu Lu’s where Josephine had a nice batch of pralines waiting for us. We told her about our visit to the cemetary and Sheryl Ann’s wish for comfortable shoes and her eyes got very wide and she wrote an address on a piece of paper. After we ate the pralines we decided to visit the address, which was in the French Quarter, and it turned out to be Marie’s Orthopedic Shoes, where Sheryl Ann got a very nice pair that did her feet well for the rest of the trip.
Josephine’s Pralines
1/4 Cup water
2T margarine
1 Cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 Cup Confectioner's sugar
1/2 teasp vanilla extract
1 Cup chopped pecans
Place large towel on counter w/wax paper on top;
In medium saucepan, add water and butter;
Bring to boil;
Stir in sugars;
Bring back to boil;
Boil and stir 1 minute only;
Remove from heat;
Stir in vanilla and pecans;
Beat by hand until it begins to thicken slightly;
Note: DO NOT OVER BEAT! candy will harden too soon;
Immediately drop from teaspoon on to wax paper;
Cool and store in covered container;
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