I'm planning the big menu today, hunting up recipes and taking requests. My dear hubby wants a pecan pie this year, and I guess after 18 years together, he's waited long enough, but I've never made one before. I've found plenty of recipes for one, and I never knew there were so many different kinds or ways to make a pecan pie. I don't really bake with nuts much, and pecans aren't my favorite but I must master this pecan pie request, so can you help me? I'm looking for a tried and true recipe, that is easy and not time consuming. Do you have a family favorite that you care to share with me that would wow my man? I'm not pie shy mind you, in fact, I'm kinda famous for a few of my pies but pecan isn't one of them! Any and all recipes will be considered and saved, and in advanced, I thank you all! I do have something in return, just in case you don't already know this, but the secret to any pie crust is ICE water! Really, it works for me every time! Now, to wait for the pecan pie people to respond to this plea! lol
Monday, November 23, 2009
Pie Please...
I'm planning the big menu today, hunting up recipes and taking requests. My dear hubby wants a pecan pie this year, and I guess after 18 years together, he's waited long enough, but I've never made one before. I've found plenty of recipes for one, and I never knew there were so many different kinds or ways to make a pecan pie. I don't really bake with nuts much, and pecans aren't my favorite but I must master this pecan pie request, so can you help me? I'm looking for a tried and true recipe, that is easy and not time consuming. Do you have a family favorite that you care to share with me that would wow my man? I'm not pie shy mind you, in fact, I'm kinda famous for a few of my pies but pecan isn't one of them! Any and all recipes will be considered and saved, and in advanced, I thank you all! I do have something in return, just in case you don't already know this, but the secret to any pie crust is ICE water! Really, it works for me every time! Now, to wait for the pecan pie people to respond to this plea! lol
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Hi Sue :)
ReplyDeleteYour blog looks so pretty! I have a Chocolate Pecan Pie recipe that is wonderful. I suppose you could leave out the chocolate chips :) Here it is:
Chocolate Pecan Pie
1 9-inch unbaked pie shell
4 large eggs, beaten
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
3 Tablespoons melted butter
1 Tablespoon flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
1 cup pecan halves
3/4 cup chocolate chips (I used Hershey's Special Dark, yum!, use a semi-sweet)
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine eggs, sugars, corn syrup, butter, flour, vanilla and chopped pecans, and stir well. Sprinkle chocolate chips over pie shell. Pour filling over chips, and arrange pecan halves on top. Bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees. Reduce heat to 350 and bake for 35 minutes longer or until set. Serve with lightly sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!
Sharon
I have always used the recipe on the back of karo syrp..turns out wonderful every time. I have made lots of theese as this is my husbands favorite. I have made some with chocolate on the bottom also.
ReplyDeletePecan Pie?? Mmmmmmm..... I love it BUT it doesn't love me!!
ReplyDeleteGood Luck.... If I remember right it really isn't all that hard to do!
Love,
Marilyn
Our Victorian Cottage
I have always made a good pecan pie and it's easy and always turns out good. I make good pie crusts, too! I think not handling them too much helps.
ReplyDeleteSouthern Pecan Pie
Beat 3 eggs with 2/3 c. sugar, dash salt, 1 c. dark Karo and 1/3 c. margarine, melted. Add 1 c. pecans.
Pour into unbaked shell.
Bake 350 degrees 50 minutes.
Pecan pie sounds delightful, Sue! I've never had much success making them.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school, in Houston, there was a small cafe on Grand Ave. I would walk up there at noon, sometimes and have a slice of pecan pie for lunch. I had 25 cents a day for lunch money and that is what a slice of pecan pie cost, in those day. They made their pies fresh everyday. Your post reminded me of those days!:-)
Happy Thanksgiving.
My recipe differs a little from the others posted, here it is:
ReplyDelete1 single-crust pie dough, partially baked and still warm
6T butter, cut into 1" pieces
1c packed dark brown sugar
1/2t. salt
3 large eggs
3/4c light corn syrup
1T. vanilla
2c pecans, toasted and chopped course
After removing the partially baked crust, turn oven down to 275 degrees. (The crust has to be warm when the filling is added)
For the filling: Melt butter in heatproof bowl and stir in the sugar and salt until the butter is absorbed. Whisk in the eggs, then corn syrup and vanilla until smooth.
Set a skillet of water on stovetop and maintain at just below a simmer. Put bowl in hot water and stir filling until the mixture is shiny and measures 130 degrees. Remove from heat and stir in pecans.
Pour filling into warm crust and bake unil it looks set but is like Jell-O when lightly touched, about 50 minutes. Cool.
Enjoy!
-Staci
I use a recipe given me by my ex-mother-in-law. It is very similar to the one on the back of the Dark Karo Corn Syrup bottle. It comes out great every time and is requested at holidays by my family and friends. Try that one and I think you will be pleased. Happy Thanksgiving Sue!
ReplyDeleteOk,here is my Boubon-pecan tart with Chocolate Drizzle. Don't panic, it's easier than it sounds but it's prize winning.
ReplyDelete1 cup packed lt brown sugar
3/4 cup dark corn syrup
3 tbls flour
2 tbls bourbon
2 tbls molasses
1 tbls butter, melted
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
2 lg eggs
1 lg egg white
2/3 cup pecan halves
1 pie dough
cooking spray
1/2 oz bittersweet choc, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 10 ingredients, stirring with whisk. Stir in pecans. Poll dough into a 13 in. circle, fit into a 9 inch removable bottom tart pan (if you don't have one of these you can use a 9 inch pie plate) coated with cooking spray. Trim excess. Spoon sugar mixture into prepared crust. Bake at 350 dgrees for 45 minutes or until center is set. Cool completely on wire rack. Place choc. in microwave safe bowl, micro on high for 1 min., Stir until smooth, drizzle over tart. Eat and YUM! Enjoy.
I used to make traditional pecan pie, but after making this tart, it is all my family asks for.
Have a great holiday!
Pecan pie is my husbands favorite. Having grown up in a bakery (dad and grandfather both owned one), I never learned to bake. I like to keep the bakeries in business for the holidays. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDelete♥, Susan
You can keep the pecans, I will take the crust...
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