Cooking for Graduate Students & Other Beginning Kitchen Dwellers (James W. Cooper)
Recipe Introduction
Pecan pie is a rich Southern dessert that is now served widely throughout the country. You simply make up an unbaked pie shell and pour 5 simple ingredients into it. Don't overcook this pie, it will harden some when it cools. It's better treated as a medium custard.
1 pastry shell bottom
1 c dark corn syrup
3 eggs
1/3 c melted butter
2/3 c sugar
1 c pecan halves
Recipe
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out one of the two pie crust rings and fit to the bottom of a 9 inch pie pan. Press the dough to the sides of the pie pan with the tines of a fork. Beat the eggs together and add the sugar, corn syrup and butter. (If you only have light corn syrup, use it and add 2 Tb molasses). Add the pecans. Pour into the pie shell and bake 50 minutes.