Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie. Imagine a pumpkin pie with pecan pie's best feature—obviously, the candied nut topping. Now spike the custard with rye whiskey, up the flavor of the crust with rye flour, and voilà: pecan-rye pumpkin pie. We use Libby's canned pumpkin because it's reliably consistent, with an ideal water content, and few. Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie

You can cook Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie
  1. Prepare 3 of eggs.
  2. You need 1 cup of canned pumpkin*.
  3. You need 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. You need 2 tbsp of melted butter.
  9. It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  10. You need 1 cup of coarsely chopped pecans*.
  11. Prepare 1 of prepared (frozen) deep dish pie crust*.

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Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie instructions

  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..

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