Nuts About Sweets
My great aunt’s good friend Evelyn use to have us over quite often. Evelyn shared an apartment with her mother Marion. Marion who had been retired for many years loved to cook. But her true calling was candy making. Whenever we would play cards at their house Marion always put out the best goodies to munch on. Even though we liked just about everything, this particular recipe was one of our favorites.
Coffee Walnuts
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup dairy sour cream
1 Tablespoon instant coffee powder
1 Teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups walnut halves
In saucepan, combine sugars, sour cream and coffee powder. Cook and stir until mixture reaches soft ball stage (236 degrees). Remove from heat and add vanilla and walnuts. Gently stir until all nuts are coated. Pour mixture onto buttered shallow pan or platter. With two forks, separate nuts. Cool until set.
4 comments:
Julie, they seem pretty simple to put together!
Oh, these sound so good! I will have to try them with some of our native pecans. My grandmother had an orange pecan praline recipe that she fixed at Christmas. She made them with orange juice. My! That was a treat!
They are easy Patricia the most important thing is getting the temperature right.
Hi Janet, they are really good. Those orange pecan pralines that your grandmother made sounds wonderful.
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