Mama's Pecan Pie

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Chef Virginia Willis says excessively galore pecan pies are mostly goo without capable pecans, making them acold excessively sweet. The concealed to the occurrence of this pastry is that its pecan-to-goo ratio is conscionable right.

As a child, Willis helped her parent marque the pastry by moving the nuts done a hand-held grinder, which her parent inactive uses. It has a crank that forces the nuts done 2 opposing forklike blades and a solid jar to drawback the seed pieces. The metallic apical that screws into the solid jar is bent and dinged, but the instrumentality inactive cuts the nuts conscionable right.

The pastry crust dough tin beryllium assembled and refrigerated up to 3 days successful advance. The pastry tin beryllium baked up to 2 days ahead. Store successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country temperature.

Adapted from Willis's "Bon Appetit, Y'all" (Ten Speed Press, 2008).

Ingredients

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Servings: 16 Makes 2 9-inch pies

For the crusts

2 1/2 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface
1 spoon good oversea salt
1/2 cupful chilled coagulated rootlike shortening, specified arsenic Crisco brand, chopped into tiny pieces
8 tablespoons (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces
6 tablespoons crystal water, positive much arsenic needed

For the filling

3 ample eggs, somewhat beaten
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful airy maize syrup
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/4 spoon good oversea salt
3 cups (two 6-ounce packages) pecan halves, coarsely chopped (see headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
460
Fat
29 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
47 g
Sodium
190 mg
Cholesterol
55 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
30 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Willis's "Bon Appetit, Y'all" (Ten Speed Press, 2008).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026