Crossword clues for praline
praline
- Nut candy
- Pecan candy
- Treat with pecans
- Sugar-and-pecan confection
- Southern sweet
- Southern confection
- Southern chocolate treat
- Nutty treat in New Orleans
- Louisiana candy
- Kind of candy
- French nut candy
- Filling for chocolates made by boiling nuts in sugar
- Confection made with crushed nuts
- Cajun confection
- Pecan treat
- Item in a 1-Across
- Nutty confectionery
- Cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
- Pecan confection
- Nutty candy
- Nuts and syrup concoction
- New Orleans confection
- Chocolate filling of nuts and sugar
- Substance made of nuts boiled in sugar, used to fill chocolates
- Fool curtailed trade in confection
- Unfortunately plainer chocolate filling
- Nutty sweet
- New Orleans treat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Praline \Pra"line\ (pr[aum]"l[=e]n), n. [F.] A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.
Bonbons, pralines, . . . saccharine, crystalline
substances of all kinds and colors.
--Du Maurier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, prawlin, from French praline (17c.), from the name of Marshal Duplessis-Praslin (1598-1675, pronounced "praline"), "whose cook invented this confection" [Klein]. Modern spelling in English from 1809.
Wiktionary
n. A confection made from almonds and other nuts and caramelized sugar.
WordNet
n. cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
Wikipedia
Praline (; ) is a form of confection containing at a minimum nuts and sugar; cream is a common third ingredient.
There are two main types:
- French pralines, a firm combination of almonds and caramelized sugar.
- American pralines, a softer, creamier combination of syrup and pecans, hazelnuts or almonds with milk or cream, resembling fudge.
Belgian pralines consist of a chocolate shell with a softer, sometimes liquid, filling, traditionally made of different combinations of hazelnut, almonds, sugar, syrup and often milk-based pastes. These high-fat, low-melting point chocolates are at the luxury end of Belgian chocolate and represent an important product of many Belgian chocolatiers.
A praline cookie is a chocolate biscuit containing ground nuts. Praline is usually used as a filling in chocolates or other sweets.
Usage examples of "praline".
Huit jours auparavant, il se serait fait fouetter et pendre pour des pralines et des amandes.
The creamy coffee and praline gateau Liberty chose for dessert was so light it fairly floated into her mouth, layers of mascarpone and coffee filling topped with shards of crunchy praline giving the cake a taste that was heavenly.
The sheer volume of foot traffic along the banquettes-marketwomen, flatboatmen from the nearby levee, children rolling hoops, ladies out for a stroll, sellers of everything from pralines to shoe pattens-precluded so much as a dropped cigar stub from remaining in the same place or state for more than ten minutes, much less the marks of some unspecified conflict, meeting, or event.
His mouth curled as he regarded her, lazed upon the steps, her bare feet and shins exposed, nibbling on her praline.
The Copelands had begun already to fantasize about distant foods, Drake drooling over ice cream of the rich premium variety, huge heaping goblets of rum raisin and pralines 'n' cream, the greater the butterfat content the better, Amanda lost in a chocolate truffle reverie, thin sculpted shells of creme fraiche and gin and Grand Marnier and liquid cherries and raspberry puree, imagined tastes the sweetest.
His repertoire of candies is remarkable: all manner of crystallized fruit, nougat, pralines, and a tooth-rotting wonder he calls divinity fudge.
Most amazing to Charmaine were the twelve different desserts: pecan (two), peach, sweet potato and pumpkin pies (three), praline cheesecake, rum-soaked bread pudding, a red velvet layer cake, fresh fruit salad, and rice pudding a la Falernum.
The sickeningly sweet smells of peanut brittle and pralines assailed them, and Hugo stumbled toward the door like a man who has narrowly survived a mugging.
Mademoiselle de Pralines asked, “Why is this cotton adrift in the harbor?
Jules was much more useful sitting in the forward cabin, giving advice through the open pressure hatch, and helping with the valves and switches—though after that kiss good-bye, Beau found himself wishing it was Emma de Pralines lending him a hand.
Emma de Pralines had been an impossible ideal twirling a white parasol, a walking emblem of Southern womanhood, all done up in satin ribbons—and likely trailing a dozen infatuated beaus, each able to buy and sell a stranded naval officer.
And a woman who needed Beau far more than Emma de Pralines ever could.
If they did not belong to the de Pralines, it was up to their masters to say so.
I’ve heard of New Orleans pralines all my life, so I got some today and now they’ve disappeared.
I've heard of New Orleans pralines all my life, so I got some today and now they've disappeared.