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    Praline is a confection made from nuts coated in sugar syrup. In Europe, almonds or hazelnuts are typically used while pecans are most common in Louisiana and Texas, where cream is also sometimes added. Praline candy patties are strongly associated with New Orleans but also popular in other Southern US cities. Pralines originated in France in the 17th century where whole almonds were individually coated in caramelized sugar. The ground version of sugared nuts is used as an ingredient in pastries and desserts. In most countries, praline refers to this powder or paste used to fill chocolates. The name is said to come from the French soldier and industrialist Marshal du Plessis

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    Praline is a confection made from nuts coated in sugar syrup. In Europe, almonds or hazelnuts are typically used while pecans are most common in Louisiana and Texas, where cream is also sometimes added. Praline candy patties are strongly associated with New Orleans but also popular in other Southern US cities. Pralines originated in France in the 17th century where whole almonds were individually coated in caramelized sugar. The ground version of sugared nuts is used as an ingredient in pastries and desserts. In most countries, praline refers to this powder or paste used to fill chocolates. The name is said to come from the French soldier and industrialist Marshal du Plessis

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    Praline is a confection made from nuts coated in sugar syrup. In Europe, almonds or hazelnuts are typically used while pecans are most common in Louisiana and Texas, where cream is also sometimes added. Praline candy patties are strongly associated with New Orleans but also popular in other Southern US cities. Pralines originated in France in the 17th century where whole almonds were individually coated in caramelized sugar. The ground version of sugared nuts is used as an ingredient in pastries and desserts. In most countries, praline refers to this powder or paste used to fill chocolates. The name is said to come from the French soldier and industrialist Marshal du Plessis

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    Praline is a confection made from nuts coated in sugar syrup. In Europe, almonds or hazelnuts are typically used while pecans are most common in Louisiana and Texas, where cream is also sometimes added. Praline candy patties are strongly associated with New Orleans but also popular in other Southern US cities. Pralines originated in France in the 17th century where whole almonds were individually coated in caramelized sugar. The ground version of sugared nuts is used as an ingredient in pastries and desserts. In most countries, praline refers to this powder or paste used to fill chocolates. The name is said to come from the French soldier and industrialist Marshal du Plessis

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    Praline

    Pralines on a cutting board Pralines and box posed

    Pralines in a box

    Praline is a family of confections made from nuts and sugar syrup.

    In Europe, the nuts are usually almonds or sometimes hazelnuts. In Louisiana and Texas, pecans
    are almost always used, and cream is often incorporated into the mixture. In the United States,
    praline candy patties are one of the foods most often associated with New Orleans, but are also
    popular in other cities in the Deep South, like Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia,
    where the similar benne seed wafer is also common.

    As originally invented in France at the Château of Vaux-le Vicomte by the cook of the 17th
    century sugar industrialist, Praslin. Pralines were whole almonds individually coated in
    caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many
    nuts. The powder made by grinding up such sugar-coated nuts is called pralin or praliné in
    French, and is an ingredient in many cakes, pastries, and ice creams.

    In most other countries the word praline is used to mean this powder, or even a paste, often used
    to fill chocolates, hence its use by synecdoche in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium to refer
    to filled chocolates in general. In the United Kingdom, the term can refer either to praline (the
    filling for chocolates) or, less commonly, to the original whole-nut pralines.

    Origin of the name


    The praline (originally spelled prasline) is said to be named after the French soldier, diplomat,
    and sugar industrialist Marshal du Plessis-Praslin (1598–1675), whose cook supposedly invented
    it at the Château of Vaux-le Vicomte. The cook, Clément Lassagne, after retiring from the
    marshal's service, is said to have founded the Maison de la Praline, a confectioner's shop which
    still exists in Montargis, 110 km south of Paris. The name has certainly existed since the 18th
    century, but there is no secure connection with the Marshal or his cook.

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