Priester's Perfect Pecan Pie Recipe

Pecan Pies are the quintessential dessert of the south. At Priester's Pecan Company, we believe that with a little loving care, fresh ingredients and the finest pecans, culinary magic can happen and create one of the finest desserts to serve on your table.

This recipe has been in the Ellis family for years and has put smiles on many faces. Our beloved matron May Ellis gets the credit. Try our Priester's Perfect Pecan Pie recipe and see the delight on your family's faces as you gather for the holidays. (Or let us do it for you, and buy pecan pies online.)

Recipe: Priester's Perfect Pecan Pie

3 eggs
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup light brown sugar, packed
½ cup light corn syrup
¼ cup margarine or butter, melted
1 teaspoon white vinegar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cups Priester's pecans, chopped or halves
1 folded commercial refrigerator pie crust, unbaked.

Preheat oven and a baking pan to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, lightly beat the eggs; then beat in both sugars, corn syrup, melted margarine, vinegar, salt, and vanilla until well blended.

Pour the pecans in the unbaked pie crust; then pour the egg mixture over the pecans.

Bake on the preheated baking pan in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. Filling should be slightly firm and the top browned.

This recipe is not an exact match of the recipe used by Priester's Pecans in our Old Fashion Pecan Pies. But it's close, tested by Priester's, and designed for baking at home. Explore great southern recipes from our family and friends in "Dining on the Victorian Verandah," the first Priester's cookbook. Or learn about the 510 pie tests it took to make the perfect pecan pie. Feel like cooking up a storm? Perhaps you'd like to enter our Blue Ribbon Good Recipe Contest?