My Aunt Dot Pourteau is a wonderful person and a wonderful cook. She recently published her second cookbook titled ALL THE FOODS WE'VE LOVED BEFORE that features recipes collected through the years from family, friends and various publications.
I was drooling as I read through the recipes and happy to see that many were provided by my uncles, aunts, cousins, my grandmother and, yes, even my own mother. Here is one of Dot's personal recipes for southern pecan pie. I can't wait to try it!
3 eggs, beaten
2/3 cup sugar
1 dash of salt
1/2 cup white Karo
1/2 cup dark Karo
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 cup pecans, chopped or whole
Beat 3 eggs throughly with sugar, salt, dark and light Karo, melted butter. Add one cup of pecan halves. Pour into 9" unbaked pie shell. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool.