Recipe: Prize Pecan Pie

Prize Pecan Pie
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Recipe By : Best Of Show in the 1997 National Pie Championships
Servings: 8

3 large eggs
1 cup dark brown sugar -- firmly packed
1 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons butter or margarine -- melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon bourbon
1 1/2 cups pecans -- coarsely chopped
1 9-inch unbaked pie shell

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Beat eggs slightly in a medium bowl. Add sugar, syrup, melted butter, vanilla and burbon. Stir until well blended. Stir in pecans and pour into an unbaked pie shell. Cover the edge of the pie with foil to prevent overbrowning.

Bake 25 minutes, remove foil and continue to bake another 25-30 minutes, or until a knife inserted halfway between the center and edge comes out clean.