How to Make Buttermilk Pralines 

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My grandma (the one I am always telling you about) made the best candy for the holidays...she made these every year along with dozens more. About 30 years ago we were so poor that we couldn't afford Christmas gifts for family, so I decided to make candy. Chocolate covered cherries and peanut butter cups were decided on. OMG...were they a hit! Those cherries were to die for...I doubled dipped them. Everyone talked about that candy for years. Only problem they expected them every year! HA

I say buggy. I’m a fan who speaks your language - literally - and I’m in upstate SC. And I adore pralines, so I can’t wait to try your recipe. 😊

I make peanut brittle and I have forgotten about pralines thank you for sharing this and I'm going to make some this week. 🙌❤

Mmmm! I love pralines! I've made them a few times, but I'd love to try your recipe with buttermilk. Thank you for sharing.

I’ve been invited to my daughter’s for Thanksgiving but we’re actually then going to go to her hub’s elderly aunt’s home as she lost her beloved husband this past year. These will be one of the things I’ll take along with me :)

I always say "you can't get a good praline north of the Mason-Dixson line". Guess I can now if I make your recipe!

Never heard it called a stove eye in Texas. We just call it a burner. I’m going to try this recipe.

You did a really demonstration . Clear and precise.

Those look delicious. Pralines are one of my favorite candies. I will try this recipe. Hugs!

I've eaten pralines once or twice, and I loved them, but I had no idea the recipe included buttermilk! Your instructions when you show your recipes are so clear that I wouldn't hesitate to try them on my own. Thank you, Tipper! ❤

It’s “carriage” in Boston. Or cart. Love real Southern pralines. Discovered them traveling through Atlanta airport. There’s a candy store there specializing in Southern candy. I’m sure your homemade pralines are so much better than store bought!

Thanks for this wonderful video. I'm a twin too and my Mam tells me the same stories about how hard it was to manage us both! Here in the North East of the UK we call a shopping cart a trolley and we call a stroller a buggy. Thanks for the wonderful content ❤️

I made these yesterday. They turned out so good! I used regular milk. I started dropping them a little too soon so the first half didn’t set up. But I waited until this morning and they have all set up ! So I just needed to be patient

Your buttermilk pralines look wonderful. I am going to try to get those made for Christmas. Thank you, Tipper!

Thanks for the recipe. Gonna try these, they looks so delicious.

My recipe has buttermilk and I think you’re right, it is the buttermilk that makes these so good. Thank you for sharing your recipe. God bless

Oh my word, these pralines are so delicious! I made this recipe over the weekend and I have to tell you, that they are already gone. Thank you Tipper, for sharing yet another wonderful recipe. Hearing the stories along with your recipes makes it all the more special. Merry Christmas!

It’s a buggy!! My husband has me make him what we refer to as naked pralines because he doesn’t like nuts. He gave me his grand mommy’s recipe when we got married over 30 years ago. They never disappoint. I do want to try your recipe next time…. Just minus the nuts in his portion. Thank you so much for sharing.

Watching your cooking demos always makes me SO HUNGRY! I don't have a candy thermometer, but just might have to put one in my buggy next time I go shopping! Tipper, will you please share your mother's recipe for Pecan Pralines so your subscribers can compare the two ... kinda like a taste contest?

I was able to turn back the clock to the 1950’s. You became my Grandmas voice. Every step except the thermometer. Candy was tested to a soft or hard ball in cool water.

When the sugar is dissolved, I was taught not to stir when taking the temp. from 210 to 234 because stirring slows the temp. rise too much and causes the mixture to overcook and become too hard. If the temp is allowed to rise from 210 to 234 while not stirring, then the candy should be creamier. At least that was our way.

I will be making these for Thanksgiving this year. The buttermilk addition is really intriguing. Thank you very much for sharing this recipe.

I make these every year, too. My MIL always called them prawl-eens but I pronounce it like you because my mom always did. Looking forward to making them again this Christmas. 🙂

Well they looked delicious and I can only imagine how they taste Tipper. EXCELLENT. Thank you for sharing.

So nice to listen and watch someone that talks like me. 🙂🥰 Our family has passed down cooking the way you do. ❤️ We just have to change to some healthier methods on some things. ☹️🍲🥗🥘😪 But nothing changes for the holidays! Pies, cakes, cookies, divinity, fudge, etc! And now some yummy pralines!!! You explain things so well and never forget the little things. 🙂👍🏻

I say buggy which is the the chair with wheels that you put babies/ toddlers in to push them around. The thing you put your shopping in at the supermarket is a shopping trolley.

I just recently found you on RU-vid and am loving your content. These pralines look wonderful! 💕

Made these last weekend, following your recipe and technique to the letter, and they were FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe and the pointers. 🙂 I’ll be making these every Christmas now, along with peanut butter fudge, peanut brittle and Butterscotch Haystacks!

These are delicious! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

You’re giving me so many delicious looking new recipes to try. Maybe I can start making some of your Traditions and integrate them with some of mine. Thank you Mrs. Tipper🥰

I’ve always wanted to make pralines ! Now I can ! Buttermilk is good in ranch dressing too !

Awesome,... Definitely going to make some with your recipe. Thank you Mrs Pressley. 😊

I don't use a thermometer, I just cook mine till it makes a soft ball . Get cold water not hot water and drop a drop in it ,if it makes a soft ball it's done. Plus I've never made it with butter milk ,I use carnation can milk . Such a good desert 👍

I love that you share the story of how you acquired a recipe or method of cooking. I have an odd way of looking at life as being woven with threads and longer threads make sturdier lives. That's why I think tradition, history, storytelling, etc. is so important. Tipper, you don't just give us a recipe you give us a strong fiber to securely weave into our the fabric of our lives. I'm putting these in my cookbook (alongside Dessie Ogle's pumpkin pie, Irvitta's chocolate cake, Peggy's pickled peppers, etc.) as Tipper's Bi-lo pralines so I will remember the person and the story. Thank you!

They look divine! I lack the patience you possess! 💕

Never known a true southerner to say ‘cart’... 😜 but now I sure do have a hankerin for pralines!!😁

Those pralines look absolutely delicious I’m glad to see how they are made it’s a delicate process and they are eaten quickly because they are so good. 😋

I just love your channel! My granny grew up in Barboursville, Kentucky and I remember seeing her house on the mountain and using her outhouse and drinking from the well. I have heard many of her phrases and I love to repeat them. One of her favorites is...."are your roses blooming?" That meant you are on your period. 😊😊 your channel brings me peace and loving memories!!❤💜 Thank you! And I can't wait to try this recipe...she loved buttermilk!

Tipper, I love pralines!!! Thanks for your recipe and for showing us how it's done. I'll make some for Christmas.

They look delicious 😋

My son went to Tulane University in New Orleans and bought some Pecan Pralines home one time that his friend's mother made. He loved them as I did and ask for the recipe. I have used it every Christmas for 30 plus years. To me they are not true Southern Pralines if they are not made with buttermilk----delicious! It is the same as yours but different variation on some of amounts of ingredients. Your girls were so cute as little ones, what a handful but lovingly so.

love this! From new orleans where it's "praw-lenes" not "pray-lines" and 'puhcans"-no buttermilk but cream and it's all delicious!! always delicious when its homemade! thanks for such a clear and well done video! love the recipes!

Tipper ,I have to tell you I just made these and they are amazing I've watched this video a few times to really watch how they look at each stage mostly because I don't have a candy thermometer But I had some buttermilk which I don't usually have so I tried them they are really Good !! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe!!

My maternal grandmother gave the recipe to me when I was young. She got it off the back of a bag of sugar. I made these a lot for the holidays, both with and without vanilla. Both versions tasted good...just a little different. In one of my moves, long ago, I lost the recipe and couldn't remember all of the ingredients. My grandmother was gone, and the sugar company no longer featured this recipe on their bag, so I was lost. I searched for the pralines that used granulated sugar (not brown sugar) and buttermilk. This is the recipe that I remember making. Thank you for bringing it back to me.

So rather than being chewy, these look more crisp and sugary which is the kind I like. I want to try this recipe with the buttermilk. ❤️

looks good gonna try

Oh, yummy... this sounds so good!

Thanks!!! My favorite candy! That and honeycomb( homemade)!!! Sending love!😘🐞👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻♥️💕

Looks delicious!

How delicious looking!

I LOVE pralines! Thanks! This is so simple!

Thanks again for teaching me somthin new to me!

They look delicious.

Yummy!

My favorite candy

Oh My. my mouth is watering.

They look so yummy

Here in Texas we pronounce the nuts puh cawns and use shopping carts but my late mother in law would call them buggies. If you ever have some pralines that don’t set up add some powdered sugar and they’ll set right up. I discovered this one Christmas when mine stayed soft after I spooned them out. I scraped them back into the pan and heated them up and added some powdered sugar and they got thick and set up fine.

Great Recipe Demonstration. They look Scrumptious!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Those pralines look so delicious. I can't wait to try them.

I am gonna try and make these this week. Thank you for sharing with us all!

these look really good. i like all that butter going in is special too. thank you for sharing.

looks yummy

Never had these before, Gotta try 'em! Thanks for sharing.

Gotta make these! ❤️

Yum!

Oh I have got to try this! I love your recipes and watching your channel!

I need to try these

Oh YUMO

Oh that looks delicious. Thank you for sharing. I’ll have to try them. Merry Christmas. God bless y’all.

Thank you so much for posting! I have been wanting to make these but havent found a recipe I feel confident enough with until now!

Good instructions!

Love listening to your stories. I think I'll adopt your Christmas tradition and recipe. Thank you so much for sharing!

I found a praline recipe when I was a teenager but, the ingredients are totally different. I too make them each year for the holidays, they are delicious!

Thank you.

I've never made those before, think I'll try!

YUM! 😍❤️❤️❤️

You did a fine job explaining the process, and telling the story of how you came to have recipe! So we can thank Katie and Corie in a way, I guess ;)

i love these blogs-good recipes!!!! enjoying getting to know the folks that live in those beautiful mountains.your beautiful daughters are very talented with their music-i enjoy them too

These looks delicious Tipper.

I say cart! 😃 Tipper, you are so delightful! I have enjoyed several of your videos over that last few days, and I decided to subscribe to your channel because of who you are and how precious it is to see the love you have for life in Appalachia! 💐

Thank you for sharing one of your favorite recipes, it's awful nice of you.

I too say buggy😁 I really do enjoy all of your videos. You tell a great story to go along with what you’re doing. I love that!

Thank you for this wonderful recipe and all of your tips. I followed them exactly, and my pralines turned out perfectly! This was my trial run, and I can’t wait to make them again for my dad this Christmas. I appreciate you!

My personal favorite.

Thanks a lot for sharing your recipe and for showing us how to make these. They look delicious.

Yummy

Enjoyed thanks

I love these! I don’t know what makes the difference in Southern terminology. In Houston, we went to the Piggly Wiggly and used a shopping cart to put our groceries in. But we also pronounce that nut as a “puh-CAHN” and the candy you made as a “prah-LEEN” At any rate, these look delicious!

You are just so , adorably pleasant ... W.V. boy says " hey " ...

Yummy Gotta try these at christmas.yhank you.Blessings

I am happy you pronounce pralines like I dol

Lovely recipe. Thank you. :)

You got me hooked on watching your videos i'm from north Ga, My mother was from Copper Hill, i have a friend from L. A Calif and she laughs at my way of talking

I say buggy too. I love pralines but have never tried to make them. I’ll definitely be trying your recipe. Thanks for sharing.

I’m so happy for you. You have your beautiful table! I hear the love and sense of pride in your voice. Have a very Merry Christmas my far away friend!

Oh Tipper , Those look good

The nicer grocery store in our area has enormous two- seater shopping carts! They're extra wide and so are the aisles. I'm in Los Angeles county. Would've been so nice for your twins when they were little.

This one sounds good, have not made this one.....but hope to soon.... thanks