Texas Pecan Pie Recipe - No Corn Syrup!

[Saviolo]

We've been seeing a few recipes for pecan pie showing up online lately, and people are starting to do pecan pie recipes that do not include a ton of corn syrup, so we wanted to try it as well! Hubby went back to the family vault in Houston to look up some recipes that were syrup-free, and this is the recipe he got. We adapted it a little, because it still had a ton of sugar, and we cut the sugar basically in half for this recipe. It was still plenty sweet, but amazingly it taste like pecans and not just syrup!

Do make sure you put this over a baking sheet, because it does puff up a great deal in the oven while it's cooking. It will settle a lot as it cools, though. We don't have much of a sweet tooth, but if you like things sweeter, you could easily increase the sugar in this recipe. The original recipe called for 1 1/2c of brown sugar and 1/2c of granulated sugar. We cut that in half and just used 1c of brown sugar. If you want it sweeter, you could just ad 1/2c of granulated and it would increase the sweetness by a lot.

[2naSalit]

1. I use...

Half maple syrup, half honey, works great, you can make it all organic.

[Saviolo]

6. Interesting!

I'll bet that's a very interesting flavour, depending on the type of honey you use.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. I hope this recipe catches on

EVERY piece of pecan pie I have ever had has been sickeningly sweet.

This one seems to be just overly sweet, not disgusting. I still won't make it.

I have a friend who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. He regularly accuses me of hating Southern cooking, just because I loathe pecan pie and also because I have said that Southern cornbread could give the Sahara lessons in how to be dry. I'm also not a fan of grits.

[Saviolo]

5. I had a friend of mine tell me this one wasn't quite sweet enough

So, I don't know, you may actually enjoy this one. It really was tasty, and it tasted more of pecans than anything. You might be able to lower the sugar even a tiny bit more.

[Kali]

3. Interesting

What is wrong with corn syrup?

I like pecan pie thin and kind of overcooked, almost chewy like candy - without too much "goo"

[Saviolo]

4. I just find it's sweet with no flavour.

Kind of like those hot sauces that are just hot with no flavour. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so when I eat a pecan pie made the way it usually is today, filled with that corn syrup filling, all I taste is sweet. I don't get the interesting interplay of the toasty pecans with the flaky crust, it's just sweet sweet sweet. I guess I'm just too sensitive to sweet things!

[magnetarowlfish]

7. Hello everyone!

It looks marvelous

[Vinca]

8. Since my husband is diabetic, I substitute sugar-free (fake) maple syrup for corn syrup

whenever a recipe calls for it. It seems to be a perfect substitute. I've made pecan pie with it and thought it tasted a little better than the original. Maybe it was the hint of maple flavoring.