Kentucky Pecan Pie Recipe

  Pies

Ingredients:
Pastry for 9 inch one-crust pie
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 cup corn syrup
2 tblsp. bourbon
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1 cup pecan halves or broken pecans
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare pastry. Beat sugar, butter, corn syrup, bourbon, salt, and eggs with hand beater. Stir in pecans and chocolate chips. Pour into pastry-lined pie plate. Bake until set, 40 to 50 minutes. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours. Immediately refrigerate any remaining pie.

Brandy Pecan Pie:
Decrease corn syrup to 3/4 cup. Substitute 1/4 cup brandy for the bourbon and omit chocolate chips.

Chocolate Pecan Pie:
Melt 2 squares (1 oz. each) unsweetened chocolate with the butter. Omit bourbon and chocolate chips.

Pecan Pie:
Omit bourbon and chocolate chips.

Kentucky Pecan Pie
 

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