: a confection of nuts and sugar: such as
a
: almonds cooked in boiling sugar until brown and crisp
b
: a patty of creamy brown sugar and pecan meats
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Pecan pralines represent Southern ingenuity paired with old-world European tradition.
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Mack Swenson, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025
The sale features homemade sugar, chocolate chip, praline, shortbread, peanut butter, cinnamon, cutouts and ginger cookies; plus cookie bars, stollen and fruit breads.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The Thanksgiving meal kit serves six people for $200 and includes butternut squash soup, turkey with gravy, stuffing, roasted green beans and carrots, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin praline cheesecake.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
Their original recipe used almonds, but at the time, the only nut available in America was the pecan, so pecan pralines were born.
—Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2025
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Mack Swenson, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025
The sale features homemade sugar, chocolate chip, praline, shortbread, peanut butter, cinnamon, cutouts and ginger cookies; plus cookie bars, stollen and fruit breads.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The Thanksgiving meal kit serves six people for $200 and includes butternut squash soup, turkey with gravy, stuffing, roasted green beans and carrots, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin praline cheesecake.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
Their original recipe used almonds, but at the time, the only nut available in America was the pecan, so pecan pralines were born.
—Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2025
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“Praline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/praline. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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