Southern Cinnamon Sugared Pecans
Total Time: 15 mins
Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups shelled pecan halves
Recipe
- 1 in a large sauce pan over medium heat, combine evaporated milk, sugar, water and vanilla.
- 2 heat mixture, stirring often, until sugar is dissolved.
- 3 add cinnamon and stir. some may float on top.
- 4 add 3 cups of pecans to mixture and stir to cover.
- 5 continue stirring pecans in mixture until pecans become coated well and mixture cooks away (gets absorbed/crystalized on the the pecans).
- 6 spread hot coated pecans on wax paper; try to separate them as you spread them on the paper.
- 7 let pecans cool completely.
- 8 break apart pecans and store in air-tight container for up to 2 weeks.
- 9 to give as gifts, put in decorative glass jars or decorative tins lined with wax paper.
- 10 note: i've tried using brown sugar (1:1 with the sugar), but the pecans have a tendency to come out sticky and the sugars don't get 'crystalized'. i have not tried these with turbinado or unbleached cane sugar yet. if they don't turn out right, i'll have to keep them for myself !
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