{"id":21820,"date":"2021-06-08T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2021-06-08T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:25:32","slug":"tortoises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tortoises\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Tortoises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aka Chocolate Covered Pralines<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&nbsp;Combine\n<ul>\n<li>1 C sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 C brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>4 TBL butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 C evap milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Heat mixture until 235-240 \u00ba&nbsp; (soft ball stage)<\/li>\n<li>Remove from heat and add\n<ul>\n<li>2 C toasted pecans (lightly crushed)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp vanilla extract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stir continually &#8211; gets a bit harder to stir<\/li>\n<li>Once it can be dropped onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with a small ice cream scooper, put them out<\/li>\n<li>While those cool, melt 2 C chocolate in a double boiler<\/li>\n<li>Either dip the hardened pralines into the chocolate, or drizzle chocolate over top.<\/li>\n<li>Let cool completely<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aka Chocolate Covered Pralines &nbsp;Combine 1 C sugar 1 C brown sugar 4 TBL butter 1\/4 tsp baking powder 3\/4 C evap milk Heat mixture until 235-240 \u00ba&nbsp; (soft ball stage) Remove from heat and add 2 C toasted pecans (lightly crushed) 1\/2 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp vanilla extract Stir continually &#8211; gets a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tortoises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phoenix Tortoises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}