Southern Molasses Pecan Pie

No Refined White Sugar, Only Molasses is Used in This Old Recipe

Fern Fischer
I call this a "Rustic" pie. The recipe is over 100 years old, from my great-grandmother's file.

Southern Molasses Pecan Pie
1 unbaked 8 inch pie shell

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup unsulphured molasses
  • 2 Tablespoons melted butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 Tablespoon flour
  • 1 cup pecans
Beat eggs in mixing bowl.
Beat in molasses, melted butter, salt, and vanilla.

Make a paste of a small amount of mixture and the flour; blend into remaining mixture.
Add pecans and stir well.

Pour into pie shell. Bake in slow oven (at 325) for one hour until filling is firm and pastry is browned.

Note:
Unsulphured molasses is the third processing stage before sugar cane is char-filtered to make white sugar. It is very high in iron, which of course is filtered out when refining the white sugar..

Sulphured molasses is lighter in color and comes from green sugar cane stalks. It has sulphur dioxide added to sanitize the juice.

Published by Fern Fischer

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  • Simple but elegant dessert.
  • Bakes best in a tin pie pan instead of a glass one.
  • Do not increase oven temperature or the molasses will scorch.
This was a favorite winter dessert of my great-grandfather over 100 years ago. The ingredients were stored on the pantry shelf, except for a couple of fresh eggs from the henhouse. Unsulphured molasses is a good source of nutritional iron.

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