primitive needs advice on pecan pie

[franksolich]

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larissa  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-27-08 04:30 AM
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Gotta perfect pumpkin cheesecake done.. but I need advice on the pecan pie..

Howz come so much of the Karo syrup is coming out of the pie?

The recipe said to use a half cup of light Karo, half cup of dark, 2 teaspoons butter and a drop of vanilla.. The mixture still had a good inch before it came up to the top of the pie, so I added a few busted up pecans in the mixture, then decorated the top with fresh split pecans.

It looked GREAT, but I took the pie out of the oven and placed it on a metal tray with a good lip on it to keep the sticky stuff off the oven and on the tray...

How come the Karo is coming out of the pie pan?  .....Did I put too much in there?

O'well.... I'm sure when it's all done... it will still be edible..

Or I hope so anyway! Anything tastes good when you dump enough ice cream or whipped cream on it!

I hope after it cools off.. it looks like that one >> 
 
after which a photograph of some pie

I dunno.

I'm not going to put down pecan pie; it's way too sweet for me, but as I'm getting a lot of grief about green bean casseroles, I'll pass on any criticism of pecan pies.

Something else however intrigues me.

I haven't seen Karo syrup since I was a little lad.

Other sorts of syrup, yes, but not Karo syrup.

Does Karo still come in those cans that look like paint-cans, and after the syrup's gone, one can use the can for storing things, for lunch-pails, and somesuch?

[Chris]

Karo comes in plastic bottles now, like everything else. 

[franksolich]

Karo comes in plastic bottles now, like everything else.

Actually, since I haven't seen it on shelves the the grocery stores for years and years, I had sort of supposed Karo syrup wasn't made any more, at all.

[Chris]

Actually, since I haven't seen it on shelves the the grocery stores for years and years, I had sort of supposed Karo syrup wasn't made any more, at all.

It's still there, but I don't see it much.  It's always crammed in a corner somewhere.  Sometimes it's next to the corn/vegetable oil, sometimes it's in the aisle with the sugar. 

[Thor]

If it's getting syrup coming out, it didn't cook the pie long enough. It probably forgot to add the one cup of sugar and the eggs.

[Crazy Horse]

One cup of Karo is half a bottle, 2 cups is what I made two pies with Monday.

Thor yeah they probably forgot the other parts.