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| Pecan Pie: Travel From the Early Settler's Kitchen to Grew the Pan American Sweet | August 5, 2009, 3:21 pm | visits: 51 | wordcount: 500
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By Stacy Carolin
Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie. It is made up primarily from corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is a enormously popular dessert prepared and serviced during important US holidays like Thanks giving, Christmas. It has a sweet and a very nutty feel with a custard like grain. Though it originated in the southern part of the USA but since early 20th century its popularity has grown immensely and has turned the Pan American dessert. What brands the pecan pie a truly American dessert? well answer is not too far, the term pecan derived and initiated from the American Indian word 'Pecan' which implies "nut to be cracked with rock". Some earlier French colonists in New Orleans got acquainted to pecan nuts by the native-born Indians, it induced their creative juices flow and pecan pie was the pleasant-tasting outcome. Small communities of Quinipissa and Tangipahoa Indians existed at that time in present day New Orleans. The first French settler to this place was sieur de La Salle,who came here in 1682.His visit was shortly accompanied up by different French adventurer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne in 1699. Another outstanding French settler sieur de Bienville,who was governor of Louisiana, visited New Orleans and liked it so much that he created a village in 1718.He christened this fresh colony Nouvelle Orleans. Thus base was laid for this admirable dish to be whipped up in a French settlers kitchen for the very first time. And who recognized at that time this union of European Pie with the native American constituent would contribute about such a revolution in American palette in the 20th century. Pecans have a long long chronicle in the area. millions of pecan plants are seen on the banks of leading Rivers, currents and irrigation canals in Texas and north of Mexico. Even fossil remains of pecan plants were also obtained there. So dependent on this bear witness we can conclude that these pecan trees existed long before indigenous Indians moved here and that these plants were expecting for their fruits to be identified by some body who could creatively utilize them and cook some thing marvellously flavourous which is appropriate to their special taste and feel. After all this special taste was found by them after standing patiently for many a thousand years. Not only that these pecan plants played a epoch-making role in presenting a Pan American fiber to the masses coming from divergent countries ,regions ,ethnicities and religious belief. In the latest times first recipe of pecan pie come out some where between 1925 and 1940.Some legendary cook books are dead sure of first recipe being published in year 1940.Today pecan pie has grabbed the imagination of entire American nation. It has been indorsed by all the communities who came to live here from all the parts of the world. Now many editions have appeared in pecan pie like chocolate pecan pie ,chocolate chips pecan pie,sweet potato pecan pie.But nothing could beat the traditionalistic New Orleans pecan pie.
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