Colonel Harlan Sanders' Pecan Pie Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
4 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 c. dark karo syrup plus 1/2 c. light karo syrup
1/3 cup sugar
pinch salt
2 t. vanilla
4 T butter (cut into tiny pieces)
3/4 c pecan halves
unbaked pie shell

Directions:
Directions:
Place pecan halves in bottom of unbaked pie shell. Mix everything else together, pour mixture over pecans. "Arrange pecans" like Aunt Daisy Belle told me (flip them over, make them pretty).

Bake at 325 for 45 minutes.

Enjoy!

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
8
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Cathy, My Aunt Daisy Belle and her mother, my Mama Georgia, got this recipe at Colonel Sanders original restaurant in Corbin, KY around 1949.
Betsy Sanders Childress

 

 

 

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