4 c  Sugar

      5 c  Pecans

      4 T  Karo syrup

      1 T  Butter

      1 cn Condensed milk

      1 t  Vanilla

      1 cn Water

  Mix all ingredients except butter, vanilla, and pecans.
  Cook on low fire until the mixture forms a soft ball in
  cold water.  Remove from fire.  Add butter, vanilla, and
  pecans, and beat until the mixture holds its shape.  Spoon
  onto buttered wax paper (Add old newspaper under your wax
  paper.)
  If candy gets hard before all is spooned out, add a little
  water, and heat over.  Or you can let it stand on low heat
  while spooning out.
  If you have never tasted freshly made pralines, made from
  fresh Louisiana pecans, you have just never really lived.
  Justin Wilson says, "Doris is the much better half (wife)
  of my good friend Gordon Martin, the sheriff of St. James
  Parish.  Every Christmas Eve we go by to see them after
  watching the bonfires that are burned on the levees along
  the Mississippi River to light the way for Papa Noel (Santa Claus).