A confection made of nut kernels, especially almonds or pecans, stirred in boiling sugar syrup until crisp and brown.
[French, after César de Choiseul, Comte du Plessis-Praslin (1598–1675), French army officer.]
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A confection made of nut kernels, especially almonds or pecans, stirred in boiling sugar syrup until crisp and brown.
[French, after César de Choiseul, Comte du Plessis-Praslin (1598–1675), French army officer.]
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1. Confection of nuts and partially caramelized sugar, often used as a centre for chocolates.
2. In France, a sugar-coated almond.
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Praline is a family of confections made from nuts and sugar syrup.
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As originally inspired in France at the Château of Vaux-le Vicomte by the cook of the 17th century sugar industrialist, Marshal du Plessis-Praslin (1598-1675),[1][2] early pralines were whole almonds individually coated in caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many nuts.[3]
French settlers brought this recipe to Louisiana, where both sugar cane and pecan trees were plentiful. During the 19th century, New Orleans chefs substituted pecans for almonds, added cream to thicken the confection, and thus created what became known throughout the American South as the praline.[4][5][6][7]
The powder made by grinding up such sugar-coated nuts is called pralin, and is an ingredient in many cakes, pastries, and ice creams.[8] When this powder is mixed with chocolate it becomes praliné in French, which gave birth to what is known in French as praline belge, Belgian chocolates. The word praliné is used colloquially in France and Switzerland to refer to these, known simply as chocolates in English i.e. various centres coated with chocolate.[9] Outside of the United States, 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.[10] In the United Kingdom, the term can refer either to praline (the filling for chocolates) or, less commonly, to the original whole-nut pralines.
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.[11] In the United States, praline candies are typically associated with their birthplace of New Orleans, but are also popular in other cities in the Deep South.[12]
The praline (originally spelled prasline) is generally accepted as being 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.[13][14]
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| Translations: Praline |
Nederlands (Dutch)
soort snoep met noten en bruine suiker
Français (French)
n. - praline
Deutsch (German)
n. - gebrannte Nuß od. Mandel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μαγειρ.) πραλίνα
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pralina (f), crocante (m)
Русский (Russian)
миндаль в сахаре
Español (Spanish)
n. - almendra garapiñada
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pralin, bränd mandel (konfekt)
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
果仁糖
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 果仁糖
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 프랄린(편도, 호두따위를 설탕에 조린 과자)
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) لوزة محمرة بالسكر
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ממתק אגוזים, מולייה, פרלין
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