Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2009, Cook's Country TV

A pecan pie without corn syrup. We certainly don't miss it.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1½ hours, plus 1 hour cooling and 3 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The overly sweet, artificial-tasting pecan pies of today bear little resemblance to their 19th-century inspiration. Could we recreate a traditional pecan pie without using modern day, processed corn syrup?
We tried a host of traditional syru...

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