Let's Begin with Brown Sugar Pecan Pie

This is the first of mom's recipe cards for this blog, and I want to run through all the cards before I go into her cookbooks, recipe clippings from magazines and newspapers, and more. Some of these cards are very old, and she wrote a few in pencil, which is fading. This is one such card for Brown Sugar Pecan Pie.

I wanted to start with a sweet, because her cards will probably end with a sweet. She had a disproportionate number of recipes for sweet things, because she had a sweet tooth. Long story there, but dad and I were both gobsmacked by the number of packages of little cookies and little bags of candies she had stashed throughout the house after she died in 2014. A regular treasure trove!

Although mom says "nuts" as the last ingredient, providing the reader with hopes of using anything other than pecans, trust me--pecans are the best choice. They seem to go with brown sugar and butter better than any other nut.

Brown Sugar Pecan Pie

2 Cups brown sugar
2 Eggs
2 Tbsp flour (she used white all-purpose flour for the most part)
1 Tbsp butter, melted
1/2 Cup cream (canned milk)
1/2 Cup nuts

Beat eggs, add sugar & flour. Add milk, stir in butter. Sprinkle nuts all over.

Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.

Note: I am not capable of going through the format of most modern recipe pages, where they go through the steps with photographs and you can download and/or print a recipe. I hope you understand. These recipes don't come with photos, and the recipes are simple enough and short enough that you can copy and paste if you want to try them.

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