Pralines(From The Files Of Viola Clark Williams) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. white sugar
1 tsp. Arm & Hammer baking soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 stick margarine
3 c. broken nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. maple syrup

Preparation

Combine baking soda with buttermilk.
Put sugar, buttermilk and margarine in a large pot.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it changes color and forms a lump when dropped in cold water.
Take off heat.
Add 3 cups broken nuts, vanilla and maple syrup.
Fold continually (slowly, about 190 strokes).
Drop on wax paper over a thickness of newspaper.
Makes 80 or so pieces.