Pecan Pie

pecan pie
step one
put 2 cups of pecans in mocrowave for one minute take out and turn them over and put back in microwave for another minute.
chop the pecans in half.

pecan pie crust
this recipe is enough for 2 pecan pie bases.
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoons butter, not unsalted
6 tablespoons shortning i wouldd probably use lard as this is american recipe they use crisco all vegetable dont think we have it in uk.as natalie has said use stork margarine not lard
6 to 8 tablespoons ice water.

warm the butter in the mocrowave until it is soft but not melted
mix in a bowl 2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
then mix in
6 tablesppons butter
6 tablespoons shortning or stork margarine will be ok
and 6 to 8 tablespoons ice water
once all mixed and together the crust wrap in plastic wrap and put in fridge for about 20 mins while preparing your pecan mix.

pecan pie ingredients
1 cup of white corn syrup use golden syrup here in uk
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
2 cups roasted pecans

put the butter in micro till completely melted
preheat regular oven to 350f

mix together
1 cup of your syrup, broen sugar, salt, melted butter and vanilla

mix slightly beat 3 eggs dont overbeat them
add eggs to the batter and stir
take pie dough from fridge and roll out rounds for your pie dishes till they are 1/8 inch thick then put it in pie dish, then pinch the edges
pour the pecan pie filling into pie shells then sprinkle the pecans over the top
put in oven for an hour or an hour and 10 minutes

Enjoy Your Masterpiece !

 

Yum Rosa - a good pecan pie is always delicious! For the 'shortening' there is one by Stork that says 'perfect for pastry' I use that for all recipes that call for Crisco.

Also the corn syrup - for anybody making it - you CAN subsitute this with Golden Syrup, as unfortunately the only place (other than a specialty shop in London) that I've been able to get corn syrup is at the Boots pharmacy sold as glucose. But in reality, Golden syrup does the trick too.

Rosa, Ill post my recipe for pumpkin pie later on - need to get back to work right now but thanks for this one!

 

natalie thanks saved the day im pleased you said stork margarine and the golden syrup, when i lived in america i always used the crisco but didnt know what to use here in the uk, look forward to getting your pumkin pie recipe thanks. speak later, for everyone i have edited 2 things in the recipe

 

Hi Rosa,thanks for the recipe.:gnthb: Next time we go to the supermarket i will get some Pecans,Golden Syrup,and Stork marg.I don't use margarine much now since Mr K has had high Cholesterol.:D

Thanks for putting up the recipe for me,much appreciated

 

hi kandy and peri your both very welcome, im making them for christmas and also you can make small individual ones iff you can find the very small tins as i used to make them in the states and the tins were a lot smaller than yorkshire pud tins, think i will go look in boundary mill as they have a lot of american tins so just might find them there, iff i do will put pic up to show you size of tins, iff i had thought about it could of asked my friend to get me some as shes just got back from usa.anyway you and everyone enjoy them

 

Rosa if you like the pecan pie, you would love the butter tarts! Have you had those?

 

hi natalie no ive not had butter tarts put the recipe up so we can all see it, i just love pecan pie not had them for some time but must make them again

 

I use Golden syrup for Pecan Pie but I also cheat and use ready made pastry. We have Corn Oil brought back from the States last year but it is reserved for making Shoo Fly Pie.

 

I'll get my recipe out for butter tarts for you as well Rosa......they're a great little thing to make at Christmas time to fill out party trays etc., very sweet - all you need is one! I'll dig that out for you (well not dig, it's in my Christmas recipe book) - just happened to have had the pumpkin one handy from the weekend fo ryou.

Shoofly pie???? I don't wanna ask........but.....what is in that? lol -

Have to go some though to beat a good banoffee pie - never had that till moving here, and its' delightful

 

natalie no hurry look forward to the recipe.
strongy i was wondering what was in that shoofly pie never heard of it

 

Shoofly Pie is an Amish speciality (Redsar will know of it, we had some in pennsylvania). It is essentially a variation of treacle tart only using molasses, brown sugar and corn oil, it is therefore very sweet.
It has a crumble top with cinnamon, the base can be thick (dry bottom) or thin (wet bottom) and usually served with cream (not for us!) or ice cream.
Two schoools of thought over the name, either it attracted flies as it cooled due to the sweet smell OR it came from the lumpy crumb topping looking like cauliflower florets, 'Cheux Fleur' in French evovling into ShooFly.

 

Thanks for the explanation - I did see by a google that it is a molasses pie of sorts - and the recipe I found for it seemed like it would be sweet, sweet, sweet....

I also saw that the name derived from having to 'shoo flies' away from it all the time due to it's sweetness, though my first thought was that it must've contained raisins.......nope

 

Yummy....thanks Rosa.

 

Yes, Shoofly is a Amish product. Its really sweet. It was made up ages ago actually to attract the flies to the pie, leaving other pies alone. Just like Hushpuppies were invented to hush the packs of dogs in the south.
I am checking my Pecan Pie recipe ( and it is a Southern dish) I use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 cup of whiskey in my mixture, and I only use butter never margarine. And if I am really proactive---I have some Georgia (state of in USA) pecans shipped in from the southern pecan trees down there. And there is a difference in those pecans verses the ones in the food store. The ones from Georgia seem to have a higher fat content. As our Thanksgiving is nearing, better put in my pecan order I guess.
As far as my pie shell--I use the roll out kind from the food store.