Double Pecan Pie

Ingredients

• 3 eggs

• 2/3 cup white sugar

• 3/4 cup dark syrup

• 1/6 teaspoon salt

• 3 tablespoons melted butter

• 2 cups chopped pecans

• 2 unbaked 8 inch pie shells

Method

Preheat oven to 400°F. Beat eggs until blended, add sugar, syrup, salt and beat thoroughly. Stir in butter. Put 1 cup of pecans in each pie shell. Pour liquid mixture equally over each. Place pies on a cookie sheet on middle rack of oven, bake for 10 minutes, then lower temperature to 300°F and continue to bake until filling is firm, about 30 minutes.

Submitted by: G. M. Baker