John Thorne's Pecan Pie

Ingredients

• •1/4 tsp salt
• •3 eggs
• •4 tbsp butter
• •2 tbsp dark rum
• •2/3 cup golden syrup
• •1 cup dark brown sugar, well-packed
• •2 cup pecans, chopped
• •9-inch unbaked pie shell

Steps

1. 1Preheat oven to 350F. In a large saucepan, heat the brown sugar, golden syrup and butter to the boiling point. Stirring constantly and scraping back any foam that clings to the side of the pan, let this mixture boil for about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and let cool while, in a separate bowl, you beat the eggs until creamy.
2. 2When the boiled syrup has cooled, beat in the eggs, salt and pecans. Pour into the unbaked pie shell and bake for about 50 minutes.
3. 3Notes:
4. 4* A little cream (about 1/4 to 1/2 cup) mixed into a pecan pie filling before baking gives it a richer, lighter texture.
5. 5* For a sweeter, lighter pie: add more sugar and use fewer pecans; for a denser, less sweet pie: add more pecans and use less sugar.
6. 6* The buttery flavour and the lard-induced flakiness of a butter and lard crust make it the perfect one for a perfect pecan pie. And a Southern pecan pie authority I know suggests that you roll out the dough a little thicker than usual; a thick, richly shortened crust provides an appetizing balance to the sweetness of the filling.