BOURBON PECAN PIE with SWEET SPICE CRUST
Filling:
1 cup dark corn syrup
¾ cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter
3 large eggs
Pinch salt
2 tablespoons Bourbon
2 cups pecan halves, about 8 ounces
One 9-inch Pyrex pie pan
To make the filling: combine corn syrup and sugar in saucepan and stirto mix. Place over low heat and bring to a boil, without stirring. Remove from heat, addbutter and allow butter to melt. In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs until liquid, then whisk insalt and Bourbon.
Whisk in syrup and butter mixture, being careful not to over mix. Allow to cool whilerolling and forming the bottom crust. See recipe for Sweet Spice Crust below.*
Set a rack at the lowest level of the oven and preheat to 350° F.
Arrange pecans in crust.
Arrange pecans in crust. Skim foam from top of filling (or the top will have anunattractively mottled surface) and pour over pecans. With the back of a fork, press thepecans down into the filling so that they are covered.
Bake the pie for about 45 minutes, until the crust is baked through and the filling is setand well puffed in the center. Cool the pie on a rack and serve warm or at roomtemperature.
*SWEET SPICE CRUST DOUGH FOR PIES
One-crust pie, about 10 ounces dough:
1
¼ cups all-purposebleached flour
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon freshly gratednutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons (½ stick)cold, unsalted butter
1 large egg
Add seasonings, salt and sugar to the dry ingredients before mixing in the butter.
To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder, cinnamon,nutmeg and cloves in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces ofbutter. Then using your hands or a pastry blender, break the butter into tiny pieces andpinch and squeeze it into the dry ingredients. Occasionally reach down to the bottom ofthe bowl and mix all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into thedry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large piecesof butter remain visible. Beat the egg in a small bowl and pour over the flour and buttermixture. Stir in with a fork until the dough begins to hold together, but still appearssomewhat dry. Scatter a teaspoon of flour on the work surface and scrape the dough outonto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth and uniform.
To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, sugar, salt and bakingpowder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix.Cut butter into 1 tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at1-second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-groundcornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible, about 15 pulses in all.
Add the egg to the work bowl and pulse ten times or so, until the dough forms a ball.Scatter a teaspoon of flour on the work surface and scrape the dough out onto it. Pressand knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth and uniform. Press the doughinto a disk. Sandwich the disk of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press itinto a 6-inch circle. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it,at least 1 hour.
Storage: Keep the dough in the refrigerator up to two days, or freeze it double-wrappedin plastic. Because the dough is thin, it will defrost quickly at room temperature whenyou intend to use it.
This recipe has been kitchen tested.
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