Pecan Pie: Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie. It is processed principally from corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is a enormously best-selling dessert readied and dished out during grand US holidays like Thanks giving, Christmas. It has a sweet and a very nutty feeling with a custard like grain. Though it developed in the southern part of the USA but since early 20th century its popularity has sprang up immensely and has turned the Pan American dessert. What affects the pecan pie a truly American dessert? well answer is not too far, the term pecan devived and grown from the American Indian word 'Pecan' which signifies “nut to be cracked with rock”. Some previous French colonists in New Orleans got acquainted to pecan nuts by the indigenous Indians, it caused their creative juices flow and pecan pie was the fabulous final result. 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 soon followed 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 produced a small town in 1718.He christened this recent village Nouvelle Orleans. Thus groundwork was laid for this hot dish to be whipped up in a French settlers kitchen for the ver
y first time. And who known at that time this marriage of European Pie with the native American fixings 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 detected on the banks of major Rivers, currents and irrigation canals in Texas and north of Mexico. Even fossil remains of pecan plants were also detected there. So based on this bear witness we can reason out that these pecan trees subsisted long before aboriginal Indians moved here and that these plants were awaiting for their fruits to be noticed by some body who could creatively utilize them and develop some thing wondrously tasty which is proper to their unmatchable taste and flavor. After all this particular taste was developed by them after standing patiently for many a thousand years. Not only that these pecan plants played a important role in contributing a Pan American quality to the masses coming from various countries ,regions ,ethnicities and faith. In the modern times first recipe of pecan pie appeared some where between 1925 and 1940.Some illustrious cook books are dead sure of first recipe being published in year 1940.Today pecan pie has overtaken 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 variants have appeared in pecan pie like chocolate pecan pie ,chocolate chips pecan pie,sweet potato pecan pie.But nothing could beat the conformist New Orleans pecan pie.