What is National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day?
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day, on August 20th, will allow you to have your chocolate and pie as well. (National Pecan Pie Day is held each year on July 12th if chocolate isn't your preference, but we don't know anyone like it.)
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Chocolate pecan pie goes well with ice cream, just like the original. Crisp pecans are a refreshing southern treat. Pecan pies fall into the sugar pie category, giving them a gooey, almost caramel center. The pie's sweet batter is made with different sugars depending on the dish. Both brown and white sugars can be used, but molasses can also be used. Corn syrup is a common ingredient as well. Also honey is used.
There is one ingredient that appears from time to time that should not surprise any cooks. Any recipes call for a little bit of bourbon, rum, or whiskey. Since these spirits hail from the southern parts of North America, seasoning them is a natural process.
Although pecan pies use eggs as a binder, it's also interesting to note another sugar pie made when eggs were out of season. The pie is referred to as a sugar cream pie in the United States. We can't imagine there being a season for eggs, birds lay more eggs in spring and summer than they do in the fall and winter. Chickens are relying on the sun to know when to lay eggs. They lay fewer eggs as the days are shorter. They may not lay any eggs at all in the winter.
