On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:40:09 AM UTC-10, Damaeus wrote:
> I've got to make a pecan pie for Thanksgiving and one of the guests is
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> allergic to corn. So I thought I'd make two pies -- one regular one the
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> classic way (corn syrup (actually moonshine syrup which is a mixture of
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> corn syrup and cane syrup), sugar, eggs, butter, vanilla, salt, pecans),
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> and one that replaces the corn syrup with sweetened-condensed milk.
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> So I thought I'd look around on the internet to see if a recipe already
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> exists so I could ascertain whether someone else had tried this with any
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> success and to find out if I should make any adjustments. I didn't find
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> any recipes that simply replaced corn syrup with sweetened-condensed
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> milk.
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> Sweetened-condensed milk is pretty sweet as it is and the idea of adding
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> a whole cup of sugar to a cup of sweetened-condensed milk just seems
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> like it would be sweet beyond all comparison. Then again, Karo corn
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> syrup is also very sweet and adding a cup of sugar to a cup of corn
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> syrup hasn't made anyone complain about the simple, classic pecan pie.
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> I thought about using the trick to turn the sweetened-condensed milk
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> into caramel. I read something somewhere about putting an unopened can
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> into a slow-cooker for about four hours, and then you open the can and
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> find it full of caramel.
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> Another idea I had was to try to make a home-made syrup from sugar,
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> brown sugar, some other ingredient, though I don't think of water as a
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> good candidate...something to make a thick syrup that's like corn syrup,
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> but which isn't made from corn.
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> Or maybe I could just use two cans of sweetened-condensed milk. Turn
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> one to caramel and use the other one straight. The eggs would probably
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> hold it all together. If it doesn't, I could say it's a dessert
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> casserole and put a serving spoon next to it.
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> I just thought I'd ask here since I haven't experimented with this
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> myself and now I don't have time to do that.
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> Damaeus
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Try the condensed milk recipe. I'd be interested. The no syrup pies are less sweet which is a good thing. I like it a lot better than regular pecan pies. I like to add a lot of extra vanilla and nuts. Thanks Costco!

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