Joanne's Recipes

This recipe is located on the back of the card that holds the  Brown Sugar Pecan Pie recipe. Mom took the liberty of adding amounts for two pastry crusts in the recipe. I think that's an interesting add, because she shows here that she might have been under some stress while baking, although she learned to bake at an early age from her mother. The addition of those double amounts made it easier for her to avoid calculating on the fly, although she was pretty good with math. She handled the household budget during 60 years of my parents' marriage. What I find interesting is the second ingredient as will as the water sprinkle...take a look:

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.