Pecan Pie Recipe Old Fashioned Happy Thanksgiving

Is It Puh-Kahn or Pee-can What’s Your Phonetics’

Whichever way you say Puh-Kahn or Pee-can depends on what part of the states you are from.   Todays phonetics’ is about the Pecan along with some great recipes and some history about our native Pecans.  My “Daddy” called it Puh-Kahn because a “Pee-can” was what he used in the outhouse and he grew up in the great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee.  In Georgia and South Carolina, I hear it’s called a “Pee-can”.  Yankees call it a “Puh-Kahn”, which is what my mother called it.  Needless to say, I call it a “Puh-Kahn” not because I’m from the South, but that’s how I heard it named when I was a child at home.  Any who, you use your phonetics to say Pecan and it’s a wonderful nut, which in the USA, we export about 80 percent of the world’s Pecans, as it should be.   The Pecan is a staple of the America’s.  Our Native Americans are the ones who introduced this nut to the world.  It got its name from the Native Americans: “Algonquin” which means a nut which requires a stone to crack it.  It is native to America and part of the Hickory Nut family.  Another name for the pecan is “Mississippi nuts”, which is what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson called them. George ate the nuts all the time, he loved them from what I’ve read, so he planted these nut trees on his estates as did Thomas Jefferson.  There are over 1000 varieties of Pecan trees and most of them were named after Native American Indian tribes.  They can grow as tall as 150 feet.  An acre of Pecan trees can yield up to 1000 pounds of nuts.  They can grow to be 1000 years old I’ve been told.  Now that’s a wise old nut tree.  During the Civil War, the Pecan shells were used to make Pecan Coffee.  I wonder if that coffee tasted bitter.  April is Pecan month, but I think it should be December because we use a lot of Pecans during our holiday season.  Pecans have been documented that they can help lower blood cholesterol levels so we can call them heart healthy.  What I like most about the Pecan is that we get to eat and cook with this wonderful nut.  Pecans can be cracked and eaten right out of the shell.  You can roast them as well as the shells and grind the shells down for coffee.  You can make pies with them or spice them up and serve them in salads. Heck, they even coat them with dark chocolate.  I add them in my Apple Dumplings and add Caramel to the mix.  They are just a great tasty nut to use.  So anyway you use or eat that tasty Pecan from the South I hope you try some of the recipes we have for you to serve at this wonderful time of year.  I hope you enjoy the holiday season and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, MadJon
There is nothing better then a home made Pecan pie and two things i'd like to see you try with this recipe is to melt your Butter until its brown, then add the caramel pellets and add that to your eggs and pecans before baking your Pecan Pie this Thanksgiving and Christmas it will give you a great tasting Pie.  Bona' Y'all and Happy trails to you until we meet again.

Christmas Caramel Pecan Pie

1 Cup Light or Dark Karo Corn Syrup
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
3 Eggs beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla
3 T. Melted Butter
1 Cup Caramel baking Pellets
1/4 Cup Cream
1.5 cups Pecans

1 pre- made pie crust 9"

 Then melt the butter until its almost brown  then ad the caramel, and cream together till they are blended.  Mix the caramel sauce with the first 4 ingredients.  Pour into the pie crust.  Bake pie in a pre-heated oven on 325 degrees for about 50 minutes or until the middle of the pie reaches a temp of 200 degrees F.  Cool pie and serve with your favorite topper.  I like to add a chocolate sauce with mine.

Posted by Eileen Hutson at 7:31 AM