New Orleans Pralines - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. sugar
1 tsp. soda
3 c. pecans (whole halves)
pinch of salt
1 c. buttermilk
1/2 lb. butter or margarine
1 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbsp. white corn syrup

Preparation

Mix buttermilk and soda.
Set aside.
Mix sugar and buttermilk with soda, butter, salt and corn syrup together in a 2 to 4-quart pan.
Cook until it forms a rather hard ball when dropped in water, approximately 17 minutes from the time it begins to boil. Add vanilla, then pecans.
Stir a short time.
Cool pan in sink filled partly with cold water.
Drop onto waxed paper with a spoon.