Potholder New Orleans Pecan Pie

This recipe is printed on a potholder that my husband brought home from a trip to New Orleans. It's loaded with pecans. For a change you can dice the pecans you put in the middle and leave whole ones on top, like I've eaten in South Carolina. At our house we make one half with added choclate chips and one half plain to cater to everyone's tastes.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 1 pie

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  cup  Dark Karo syrup
• 3  eggs, beaten
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3⁄4 cups pecan halves
• 1  unbaked pie crust (9-inch )

Directions

1. Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy.
2. Add salt, karo syrup, eggs, and vanilla.
3. Sprinkle pecans on the bottom of the pie shell, reserving 1/4 cup for topping.
4. Pour filling over pecans.
5. Decoratively place remaining pecans on the top of the pie .
6. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes.
7. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 35 minutes longer. (If you want, you can put the pecans on the top at this point instead of earlier, so they don't get so dark.).
8. Test with knife. Outer edge of filling should be set, and center of filling should be slightly soft, but knife should come out clean.