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Alright, come on Bubba. Bubba and I Bubba and I

are fixing to share our recipe for pralines, y'all. Oh! And these are so good, so simple, so easy to make, Bubba

Good. And you just want to pack your cup of brown sugar

So there you go, a cup of packed brown sugar. Okay. A cup of white sugar

Okay. All right, now you take your spoon, Bubba. All right. And you mix in your heavy cream

We're going to use a half a cup of heavy cream. You know, Savannah, y'all, is kind of known for the pralines, right

Yes. And a young lady came to a book signing one day

and she brought me some pralines. And she said she was making them and selling them

She had an autistic child. Her name is Azure Roundtree. And I tasted her praline, and I said

Honey, that may be one of the best pralines I've ever put in your mouth

How about if the Lady and Son's store, the Paula Deen gift store, buy them from you

She said, oh my gosh, that would be wonderful because the proceeds are going to go to help autism

Very nice. And pralines are fairly easy to make but you know Azra wouldn tell me She wouldn share a recipe with me and I said don honey You keep that to yourself because it so good

All right, so, Bubba, we're going to bring that to a ball. Okay. We're going to bring it to a ball

A ball. A ball. Yes. Yes. I like the way we say that

A ball. A ball. You know, I meant to add a speck of salt

Now, we're going to let that ball for five minutes. I found out that when we moved to Savannah

that pralines have a big, deep history in Savannah. Where in Albany, they didn't

Ours was divinity. Pralines are real strong in, like, Nolens and Savannah

And look at this. Can y'all see over in there how good it's bubbling? It is bubbling

Look at that. All right, so Bubba, I turned off your fire

Okay, now... We're gonna add four tablespoons of butter. All right. And we're going to add a tablespoon

or as much as I want to of vanilla. Okay, love vanilla

I do too, so that's why I'm putting double. Ooh, now it's starting to smell good, y'all

You always want to add your vanilla after you've cut off your bubbling ingredients

because alcohol will burn off. Yes. And you don't want it to burn that flavor off

First you smell the vanilla, then you smell the alcohol. And we're gonna add as many pecans as we can afford

That's what makes them so good, y'all. I hate when people skimp on the pecans in praline All right Bubba They getting thick now Are they Well we don want them to lose its gloss because We still glossy but it thickening up

If it loses its gloss, it's going to be a little too late. Okay

I didn't know that, but it's glossy. All right, let's see. Let me take a look, Bubba. Okay. All right, let me just see how it..

I put so many nuts, y'all. I'll tell you what, that'll keep Dennis in business, too

I put too many nuts. The little piglet that I am, look at one of these bread out, I put too many nuts

That's all right, we'll have a chunk of nuts. I got too hoggy, y'all

Look, Bubba, what I did. I know it. That is pure glutton

I let it cook a little too long, I think. Yeah, so I'm gonna reheat it back up

This is so simple to fix. All right, Bubba, I'm going to have to ask you to step aside, please

Yes, ma'am. I got to kind of take a look at this myself

How do you know when it's ready? What do you look for? Well, you cook it for five minutes

and I think our five minutes went a little too long. But that's all right

Now, this is looking better. So all I did was add some more heavy cream

and heat it back up. Mm-hmm. And see the difference? Yes. See

You can do that? Well, I can. You know, almost everything is fixable

Almost everything is fixable. The only thing I found I couldn fix was scorch Now I don know how to fix anything scorched but look at that I like it

All right, I'm going to get these out, because once you start working, girls and guys

you have to work pretty fast. Not a lot of time to stand around and chit-chat

You know, you really need to use a clock when you're making them

So there we go. These will take just a minute to harden

They still turned out good. Look, you can tell mine, look. It's a bite of brown sugar with a whole bucket full of nuts

They make wonderful little gifts. How cute is that? So if your children's birthday is in December

They make great little gift packs for your children. Bubba, you want to go serve our guests? No

No, no, no. That'll be mine

Okay. So, y'all, that's what I love about this network. You actually see things the way they really happen

Just like in your kitchen. No, we do not do everything perfect

Everything can be fixed. So I hope y'all enjoyed that praline recipe