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Home > Praline Chocolates Praline Chocolates became feisbale after 1912 when a Belgium Chocolatier named Jean Neuhaus created a chocolate shell into which he put the praline filling. Praline however has a long history this entry from Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999 (p. 631-2) tells us; "Praline. A combination of almonds and boiled sugar, is a popular confection with a long history. The name is originally French, and the Dictionnarie de l?epicerie (1898) gives this definition" Praline.--Bonbon forme d?une amande rissole dans du sucre dont ell form ensuite le noyeay, et parfue it colore de diverse manieres.? The important points in this definition are that it refers to almonds which are whole and separate, each covered with boiled, grained sugar. This remains the primary meaning of the word in modern French. According to the often-repeated but unverifiable legend dating back to the end of the 18th century at least, the name praline? is derived from the Duke of Plessis-Praslin (1589-1675). His cook is supposed to have invented a method for coating whole almonds in grained caramelized sugar, and later to have retired to the to produce the sweets commerically. Whatever the truth, pralines were well known, outside as well as inside France, but the 18th century, when recipes for Prawlins?, or for Almonds Crisped? appeared in English cookery books. Borella (1770) observed that ;praline? is French Anglicized, as there is no English word to express the real idea of the French in this sort of preserving almonds.? Eventually, however, praline, like many other French culinary terms, became an adopted word in the English language. As an English word, praline now has the main meaning of a powdered nut-and-sugar confection, the nuts commonly (but not exclusively) used being almonds...In North America pralines are a specialty of several southern states. In Louisiana, especially New Orleans, the name applies to candies made with pecans in a coating of brown sugar which used to be sold by Creole women known as pralinieres." |
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