Best Pralines?

One of my biggest weaknesses when in New Orleans is pralines.

What are your favorite places (manufacturers included... since i remember that there are mobile sales people for different companies) for them?

Best Pralines?

NOSC - New Orleans School of Cooking, not only demo%26#39;s them, but sells them out front. Down the street from them is a store front that makes them and sells fresh. Always get them the same day.

A ';fresh made'; place in the French Market stalls may not have reopened yet. Upriver on Decatur, still technicall Fr Mkt, Aunt Sally%26#39;s, makes and sells, and their boxed product is in all the Quarter souvineer stores. Meaning -- while they demo the making in their shop, their boxes all over town are from some factory days old.

But then, I have a three-generation-old praline recipe from New England, using more brown sugar and butter, and a touch of molasses. Very different. And better.:) Most of those in the 0.25 use simple white sugar only. Hmph.

Best Pralines?

ohhh 3 generations old? sounds yummy. Would u be willing to share the recipe? That is my souvenir weakness... cookbooks lol

In the Quarter, I like Aunt Sally%26#39;s and Southern Candymakers on Decatur.

Aunt Sally%26#39;s only if you get them from the stock they make in the shop as you witness. Fresh. All over the 0.25, those yellow cardboard boxes in the t-shirt shops next to the gator heads and obscene t-shirts, and hot sauce bottles from Taiwan, came from a factory days or weeks old.

As to my recipe? It%26#39;s not a NOLA style. Sharing it? Lemme think. .... No.

If you have the time, walk out St Charles Avenue just past Lee Circle and on the left side of the street is a little praline shop which drew me in as I happened to walk by. I really don%26#39;t like pralines and have no idea if these are the best or not, but it is rare to see a small business where food is made on the premesis these days and where cleanliness and kind customer care are obvious. That day I bought pralines for every aunt and other relative I could think of. They all seemed to like them. The people there package each praline carefully in fancy paper and wrap them up like they are dressing their little kids. I checked the web and think it was Pralines by Jean at 1728 St Charles. I think it is worth a look if you are in the neighborhood.

My mother made the best pralines I ever put to my lips. Whenever I pick up a store-bought praline, I read the label. If the list of ingredients doesn%26#39;t exactly match the ingredients she used, I put it down. It isn%26#39;t complicated: pecans, brown sugar, evaporated milk, butter and vanilla. Any additional ingredients are superfluous and if any ingredients are missing, then it isn%26#39;t a praline, IMHO.

Anybody ever heard of %26#39;Gold Pralines%26#39;? a friend of mine mentioned them. Trying to get some. Don%26#39;t know if the %26#39;Gold%26#39; is a type or brand. Any info would be appreciated.

Add another vote for Southern Candymakers on Decatur.

If you are a praline person, you can log in to New Orleans Pralines, and get a wealth of information on the different places in New Orleans that sell these amazingly likable concoctions as well as some of the recipes for them.

We make our own for our family and for friends, that way we know what is in the recipe.

Pralines should be soft, not crunchy like brittle.

Exercise caution with the hot sugar mixture while making your own.

There%26#39;s a farmer%26#39;s market on Saturdays on the corner of Magazine and Girod and there%26#39;s a guy selling pralines. The free samples are great so I suppose the pralines are too!