Buttermilk pralines: A taste from the campaign trail

“I bought this cookbook in a garage sale in Stockdale,” Wilson County News proofreader Ginger Coleman said, sharing this recipe for Lou Tower’s Buttermilk Pralines. “Love the story with this recipe, and I’ll bet these pralines are mighty good!” The copyright date of the cookbook, Mesquite Country — Tastes & Traditions from the Tip of Texas, is 1996. The recipe was shared for the book by Doris Bentley of The Grill Room in South Padre Island, along with Shan Rankin and Marion Conlin. The preface to the recipe states, “U.S. Sen. John Tower was first nominated as the Republican Party’s...

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