Pecan Pie American Recipe
Put the sugar corn syrup and salt in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Pecan pie american recipe. Add eggs and salt and whisk until mixture is even. Top each one with 6 pecan halves then bake for 20 25 mins until golden and set. Line the prepared pie dish with the dough trim the edges with a knife and use a fork to flatten and decorate the edges.
Fold in pecan halves. Step 2 in a medium saucepan combine the sugar corn syrup butter water and cornstarch. If you notice the edges of the crust browning too quickly place a pie crust shield over the pie.
To make the filling. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c. Pour the filling on top of the pecans and place the pie in the oven.
Reserve 36 pecan halves and roughly chop the rest. Pour into the pastry case. Pour mixture into pie crust and spread evenly with a spatula.
Beat together the eggs sugar syrup vanilla bourbon melted butter and chopped pecans and spoon into the tart cases. Place in oven and bake 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on your oven. Take pieces of aluminum foil and gently cover edges of pie crust.
Alternatively if you see that the whole pie is browning too quickly you can tent the entire pie with aluminium foil. In the early 20th century pecan pie recipes began to appear outside of texas but the pie did not gain much popularity until the mid 1920s. Put on a baking tray.