what is pecan pie? Ive heard of it but no idea what it is?

Question

is it nuts or some thing?????????

Answer 1

Ingredients
For the sweet pastry:
225g/8oz plain flour
110g/4oz caster sugar
110g/4oz butter
4 egg yolks

For the pecan filling:
3 eggs
110g/4oz sugar
4 tablespoons golden syrup
2 tbsp rum
50g/2oz butter, melted
a pinch of salt
a few drops vanilla extract
175g/6oz pecan halves

Method
1. Make the pastry by putting all the ingredients into a food processor and whizzing until you get a dough.
2. Remove and place in a plastic bag and put into the fridge to relax for 1 hour.
3. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Line a 9in/23cm pie tin with the pastry.
4. Break the eggs in a large mixing bowl and beat well and then beat in the sugar. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
5. Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake for 10 minutes and then reduce the oven heat to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and bake for another 30 minutes or until the top of the pie is golden. Check if it s cooked through by inserting a skewer, it s done if it comes out clean.
6. Turn out of the tin when slightly cooled and serve warm or cold with vanilla ice cream or a spoonful of crème fraiche.

Answer 2

It is delicious! Pecans grow on trees like walnuts, hazelnuts, etc. They are used in many desserts and salads and as toppings, as well.

Pecan pie is served in the American South at Thanksgiving and Christmas and just about any other time that someone will make it. It is a sweet custard packed with pecans. Here is a page with all you could want to know about pecan pie. If you enter "pecan pie" into a search engine, you will get plenty of recipes. Many people use Karo Syrup as a base, and there is an excellent recipe on every bottle of syrup. Some churches order cases and cases of pecan to sell in fundraisers every fall. Pecans are grown in orchards
Here's the website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan_pie

Answer 3

Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie made primarily of pecans, which are nuts and corn syrup. It is popularly served at holiday meals, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and proves its popularity during all holidays. It stays fresh for a week or more and is considered a speciality of Southern U.S. cuisine. Most pecan pie recipes include salt and vanilla as flavourings. Other ingredients such as chocolate and bourbon whiskey are popular additions to the recipe. Pecan pie is often served with whipped cream. It is one of the home-cooked comfort foods, rather fattening too.

It is made in 3 steps,
1. Roasting the pecan nuts.
2. Baking the pie crust or alternatively using ready made flaky pastry to save time, and
3. Making the pecan pie filling with brown sugar, melted butter, eggs,vanilla and salt.

Click on the link to see what pecan nuts look like.
Hope this has been helpful,

Answer 4

Pecan Pie

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, beat eggs until foamy, and stir in melted butter. Stir in the brown sugar, white sugar and the flour; mix well. Last add the milk, vanilla and nuts.
Pour into an unbaked 9-in pie shell. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes at 400 degrees, then reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until done.

Answer 5

Pecan pie is a typically southern U. S. A. dessert. It is made in a pie shell and made of lots of pecans (a nut) and lots of sugar. It is very sweet.

Answer 6

In most houses years ago when toilets were at the other side of a cold back yard people had a can under the bed to pee in. Pecan pie is a simple savoury pie cooked in a pee can

Answer 7

Yes it is a pie made with pecan nuts in it.

Answer 8

You haven't lived until you've had a well-made Pecan Pie. Yes they are nuts and look a little like walnuts, but there is a tremendous taste difference.

I grabbed this recipe off chefs.com, but you may want to look over the other pecan site I've offfered below.

Best Pecan Pie
The Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 60 minutes
Total Time: 75 minutes
Servings: 8

Ingredients
1 pre-baked 9 inch pie shells
1/4 cup unsalted buttercut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs, room temperature and beaten
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup real maple syrup
1 Tbsp. real vanilla
1 cup pecan pieces(4 ounces)
1 cup pecan halves(4 ounces)

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 F. In two separate batches, spread pecan pieces and halves on baking pan and bake each for 10 minutes or until lightly toasted. Lower oven temperature to 275F.

Melt butter in top of double boiler over simmering water. Remove top pot from heat and stir in sugar and salt until butter is absorbed and mixture has cooled. Beat in eggs, syrups, and vanilla. Return pot to heat and continue stirring mixture until glossy and warm. Remove mixture from heat and stir in pecan pieces.

Pour mixture into pie shell and sprinkle pecan halves evenly over surface. Bake approximately one hour or until center is firmly set. Cool pie on rack at least one hour. Serve at room temperature, or slightly re-warmed, if desired.

Answer 9

Yes it is made from pecan nuts

Answer 10

The other answerer's have given you the answer.

I am here to tell you that if you live in the UK and are near a COSTCO warehouse they sell it there.
you need to be a member or know one but do try and get some. The pie is large enough for about 12-15 portions so beware!!

I quite like it