Pecan Pie: Travel From the Early Settler's Kitchen to Grew the Pan American Dessert By Stacy Carolin At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie. It is cooked mainly from corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is a enormously popular dessert prepared and served during all-important US holidays like Thanks giving, Christmas. It has a sweet and a very nutty flavor with a custard like grain. Though it originated in the southern part of the USA but since early 20th century its popularity has sprang up immensely and has become the Pan American dessert. What establishes the pecan pie a truly American dessert? well answer is not too far, the term pecan devived and started from the American Indian word 'Pecan' which signifies “nut to be cracked with rock”. Some past French colonists in New Orleans got familiarized to pecan nuts by the indigenous Indians, it affected their creative juices flow and pecan pie was the choice consequence. Small communities of Quinipissa and Tangipahoa Indians lived at that time in present day New Orleans. The first French colonist to this place was sieur de La Salle,who came here in 1682.His visit was shortly followed up by different French adventurer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne in 1699. Another prominent French settler sieur de Bienville,who was governor of Louisiana, visited New Orleans and liked it so much that he produced a settlement in 1718.He christened this newborn small town Nouvelle Orleans. Thus groundwork was laid for this delightful dish to be whipped up in a French settlers kitchen for the very first time. And who known at that time this union of European Pie with the indigenous American constituent would bring about such a revolution in American palette in the 20th century. Pecans have a long long history in the realm. millions of pecan plants are discovered on the banks of major Rivers, streams and irrigation canals in Texas and north of Mexico. Even fossil remains of pecan plants were also detected there. So supported on this evidence we can reason out that these pecan trees lived long before domestic Indians moved here and that these plants were waiting for their fruits to be discovered by some body who could creatively use them and make some thing marvelously delightful which is befitting to their special taste and feeling. After all this special taste was produced by them after standing patiently for many a thousand years. Not only that these pecan plants played a respectable part in imparting a Pan American quality to the people coming from contrasting countries ,regions ,ethnicities and faith. In the modern times first recipe of pecan pie appeared some where between 1925 and 1940.Some famous cook books are dead sure of first recipe being published in year 1940.Today pecan pie has received the imagination of entire American nation. It has been backed by all the communities who came to live here from all the parts of the world. Now many variances have appeared in pecan pie like chocolate pecan pie ,chocolate chips pecan pie,sweet potato pecan pie.But nothing could beat the traditional New Orleans pecan pie.

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