3 easy very southern Recipes

buttermilk pecan pralines 1970 s, southern living, soda, buttermilk, sugar, butter, salt, white corn syrup, vanilla, pecan halves, add soda to buttermilk. mix sugar, buttermilk mixture, butter, salt and syrup., cook until it forms a rather hard ball when dropped into water ., add vanilla and then pecans, and stir a short time., cool rapidly. spoon pralines on waxed paper ., makes 22-48 pralines .

white cake mix* (duncan hines classic white , my choice), eggs, sour cream, water, vegetable oil, note: spice , chocolate or your favorite cake mix may be substituted, after baking , these layers can be spread with icing or filling between the layers, then top and sides iced., this is a quick easy , very pretty icing for the cake, but if using this icing, enjoy the cake the day it is iced, because it will not hold up for longer storage, divinity frosting (a no-brainer, home-style fluffy white frosting mix (betty crocker home style white frosting mix), boiling water, light corn syrup, vanilla extract (i like to add almond extract also), powdered sugar, chopped pecans, toasted