From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!cw
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Title: Pecan Pie (as made by Mother)
Article-I.D.: eagle.409
Posted: Mon Jun 28 20:22:56 1982
Received: Tue Jun 29 01:22:55 1982


                                Pecan Pie

       Ingredients

       1/2 cup     butter softened
       1 cup       sugar
       1 cup       dark corn syrup
       1/2 tsp     salt
       11/2 tsp    vanilla
       3           eggs
       2 cup       coarsely chopped pecans
       fluted 9 inch pastry shell unbaked

       Method

       Put the butter in a medium sized bowl, add the sugar, syrup,
       salt, and vanilla; with a hand mixer or spoon, beat until
       the mixture is thoroughly blended.  Add the eggs and beat
       until just blended.  Fold in the pecans and pour the mixture
       in the pastry shell.  Bake at 375o on the rack directly
       below the center rack.  Baking time should be about 40-50
       minutes; the pie is done when browned and when the filling
       is set to light shaking in the center.

       Notes

       When the pie is done, the edge of the crust should be nicely
       browned and the bottom pale gold.  If the pecans in the
       center brown too much, a tent of foil will help.  The pie
       should be cooled on a rack.  Presumably this is the best
       version of the many pecan pie recipes my mother has tried
       over the years; in any case, my mother is well known for her
       pecan pie and this is her recipe.