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.
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