Pecan Pie - Heirloom Recipe

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Pecan Pie - Heirloom Recipe

After WWII my uncle married a woman from Missouri whose family had been making pecan pie this way for many, many years. I titled it an Heirloom Recipe because before the invention of corn syrup this is the way pecan pie was made. It is undoubtedly the best pecan pie I have ever had.

Ingredient

Cooking time :

25 mins

1/2 cup

sugar

1 cup

pure maple syrup (not artificial)

1/4 cup

butter unsalted (4 tbsp.)

1 tsp

pure vanilla extract

eggs

3/4 cup

whole pecans or more if you want

pie crust - any of your choice except flakey

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Preheat oven to 450°.

* Step 2

In a small sauce pan bring to almost boil maple syrup and sugar; stir constantly until sugar crystals desolve. Remove from heat.

* Step 3

Add butter and vanilla to pot, stir and let cool.

* Step 4

While syrup is cooling prepare pie crust by punching bottom of crust with a fork. Brush bottom and side's with a little egg white from eggs.

* Step 5

Mix eggs together. If the syrup mixture has cooled a little, add eggs to syrup and stir until blended. If the syrup mixture is still warm, you want to temper the eggs by adding about a tablespoon of the syrup mixture to the eggs stirring as you pour. Once the eggs are tempered add them to the rest of the syrup stirring as you pour until blended.

* Step 6

Place pecans in bottom of crust and slowly pour in maple syrup mixture.

* Step 7

Place foil strips around edges of crust so it doesn't burn.

* Step 8

Place in 450° oven and set timer for 10 minutes.

* Step 9

IMPORTANT! After 10 minutes reduce heat to 350° and bake for an additional 35 minutes. When there's 20 minutes left to bake remove foil from the edge of the pie.

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