Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie. Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie

You can have Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie
  1. Prepare 3 of eggs.
  2. It’s 1 cup of canned pumpkin*.
  3. It’s 1 cup of sugar.
  4. It’s 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
  5. It’s 1/4 tsp of ground ginger.
  6. Prepare 1 dash of salt.
  7. Prepare 2/3 cup of dark Karo corn syrup.
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp of melted butter.
  9. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  10. It’s 1 cup of coarsely chopped pecans*.
  11. You need 1 of prepared (frozen) deep dish pie crust*.
Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 350.

  2. In a small bowl, combine ONE egg, pumpkin, 1/3 cup sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Spread in pie crust..

  3. In medium/large bowl, beat remaining two eggs slightly. Stir in dark corn syrup and remaining 2/3 cup sugar. Then stir in butter and vanilla extract. Stir until well-blended..

  4. Stir in pecans. Carefully spoon over pumpkin mixture..

  5. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until set around edge and it doesn't move or appear liquidy..

  6. Store in refrigerator..

    • For only a thin layer of pumpkin, use half a cup of the canned pumpkin. Grandma prefers it this way. I made it with a whole cup and that was fine too..
    • If you buy the packaged pecans from the baking isle, they're already coarsely chopped..
    • Do not that the pie crust. Just preheat a baking sheet in the oven and place the pie on that to bake..