Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie

Name: Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: Southern, American
Ingredients: 1 cup, maple syrup; 1 cup packed (7 ounces; 198 grams), light brown sugar; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 1 tablespoon, molasses; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 1/2 teaspoon, Salt; 6 large, egg yolks, lightly beaten; 1 1/2 cups, toasted and chopped pecans; 1 , (9-inch) unbaked pie shell (see note), chilled in pie plate for 30 minutes

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

Desserts or Baked Goods

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?
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