Prize Pecan Pie Recipe

  
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
      3 lg eggs
      1 c  dark brown sugar,firmly
           -packed
      1 c  light corn syrup
      2 T  butter (or margarine )
           -melted
      1 t  vanilla extract
      1 T  bourbon
  1 1/2 c  pecans,coarsely chopped
    1 9    pie shell,Unbaked

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.

Best Of Show in the 1997 National Pie Championships

Prize Winning Chocolate Fudge
        
      3 oz unsweetened chocolate
      1 c  milk
      3 c  sugar
      4 T  light corn syrup
    1/8 t  salt
      3 T  butter
      2 t  vanilla`
    1/4 c  walnuts,Broken

Cut chocolate in small pieces.  Combine with milk in a heavy 3 uart
saucepan.  Cook over low het, stirring constntly until milk is scalded
& chocolate is melted.

Stir in sugar, corn syrup & salt

Cook over mediumheat, stirring until sugar dissolves.  Cook without
stirring until mixture cools  reaches 236 degrees

Remove from heat add butter without stirring.  Let stand, without
stirring until mixture cools to lukewarm 110 degrees

Add vanilla.  Beat vigorously until candy loses its gloss and starrts
to thicken     stir in nuts.

Pour into lightly ubttered 8" square pan, being careful not to scrape
pan.  Cut when firm into 36 pieces.  Makes 1 1/2 pounds.