{"id":2461,"date":"2009-11-29T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2009-11-29T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:11:43","slug":"grandma-junes-pecan-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/grandma-junes-pecan-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma June&#8217;s Pecan Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving was wonderful. \u00a0Ben and I traveled to my sister&#8217;s house in Dallas to spend the holiday with my parents, my 3 sisters and their husbands, my nephew, cousins and their husbands, \u00a0their kiddos, my aunt and uncle and grandpa. \u00a0 We had 19 people for lunch on Thursday, and it was so great to have so many people there. \u00a0It&#8217;s getting harder and harder for all of us to get together now that everyone is moving to all ends of the country and having kids. \u00a0So, this was a special Thanksgiving. \u00a0The food was incredible and included a cornucopia of turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, green bean and mushroom casserole, balsamic roasted sweet potatoes, sauteed carrots and fennel, and flaky rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Dessert is a favorite part of the meal. \u00a0Pies are the traditional Thanksgiving dessert in our family. \u00a0This year we had apple streusel, pumpkin, and cinnamon custard pies, a gingerbread pear tart, and a chocolate chip pumpkin bundt cake. \u00a0We did not make a pecan pie for Thanksgiving day, but I just couldn&#8217;t stand not having a piece this year. \u00a0So we made one after Thanksgiving&#8230;not that we really needed any more pie, but a little extra pie never really hurt anyone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"pecan7\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pecan7.jpg?resize=400%2C318\" alt=\"pecan7\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the recipe that my Grandma June always made, and it is the best pecan pie ever. \u00a0I use whole pecans because it looks prettier and I like getting a big pecan in a bite instead of some chopped up pieces. \u00a0This does make the pie incredibly difficult to cut a pretty piece from. \u00a0But it looks beautiful on a holiday table and by the time people start devouring it, no one cares what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"food11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/food11.jpg?resize=553%2C415\" alt=\"food11\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Grandma June&#8217;s Pecan Pie<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>4 tablespoons butter<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>3 eggs beaten<\/li>\n<li>1 cup light corn syrup<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups whole pecans<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 steaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>1 unbaked pie shell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Beat butter and brown sugar until creamy.<\/li>\n<li>Mix in eggs, corn syrup, salt and vanilla.<\/li>\n<li>Put pecans into pie shell, then pour filling on top.<\/li>\n<li>Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Let cool before cutting.<\/li>\n<li>Serve with sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:70px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/grandma-junes-pecan-pie\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"400\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving was wonderful. \u00a0Ben and I traveled to my sister&#8217;s house in Dallas to spend the holiday with my parents, my 3 sisters and their husbands, my nephew, cousins and their husbands, \u00a0their kiddos, my aunt and uncle and grandpa. \u00a0 We had 19 people for lunch on Thursday, and it was so great to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,99,154],"tags":[186,185,32,184],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51jE-DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}