Recipe: Perfect Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie

Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie.

You can have Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie

1. Prepare 3 of eggs.
2. Prepare 1 cup of canned pumpkin*.
3. You need 1 cup of sugar.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
5. You need 1/4 tsp of ground ginger.
6. It's 1 dash of salt.
7. Prepare 2/3 cup of dark Karo corn syrup.
8. It's 2 tbsp of melted butter.
9. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
10. Prepare 1 cup of coarsely chopped pecans*.
11. You need 1 of prepared (frozen) deep dish pie crust*.

Grandma's Pecan Pumpkin Pie instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In a small bowl, combine ONE egg, pumpkin, 1/3 cup sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Spread in pie crust..
3. In medium/large bowl, beat remaining two eggs slightly. Stir in dark corn syrup and remaining 2/3 cup sugar. Then stir in butter and vanilla extract. Stir until well-blended..
4. Stir in pecans. Carefully spoon over pumpkin mixture..
5. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until set around edge and it doesn't move or appear liquidy..
6. Store in refrigerator..
7. * For only a thin layer of pumpkin, use half a cup of the canned pumpkin. Grandma prefers it this way. I made it with a whole cup and that was fine too..
8. * If you buy the packaged pecans from the baking isle, they're already coarsely chopped..
9. * Do not that the pie crust. Just preheat a baking sheet in the oven and place the pie on that to bake..