Grammy's Kitchen · Pecan Pie · Pecan Pie
One of 63 pecan pie recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
5 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 25% | 25% |
| total sugar | 136% | 90% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 68% | 96% |
| egg | 65% | 65% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| vegetables and beans | 67% | 17% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 100 g | 1/2 cup granulated sugar ($0.19) |
| 213 g | 1 cup brown sugar (lightly packed, $0.86) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon ($0.02) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.01) |
| 154 g | 1 cup light corn syrup ($1.64) |
| 4 g | 1 tsp vanilla extract ($0.87) |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup salted butter (melted, $0.50) |
| 150 g | 3 eggs (lightly beaten, $0.75) |
| 164 g | 1 1/2 cups pecan halves ($4.08) |
| 230 g | 1 pre-made pie crust (9-inch, $1.38*) |
Method: 10 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Although this recipe is pretty close to the one I've always made from the Karo label, it has a couple of really good improvements--particularly the reduction of corn syrup. I've always reduced the sugar a bit since this pie is tooth achingly sweet anyway, so I” — a cook, 5.0★
“Minus the cinnamon, this is very similar to the recipe I've used for decades--no point in messing with a good thing. Like others, I hate using corn syrup, but my experiments without it haven't been very good, and I've pretty much decided that using it once or ” — a cook, 5.0★