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april 2019
PECAN PIE is thought
to have originated with
French settlers around
the early 1700s in New
Orleans but the exact ori-gin
of the tart-like tassies is
unclear. It is thought that
the word came from the
French word tasse, meaning small cup.
These bite-sized pecan pies were first
mentioned in newspapers in the ’50s
and tended to make appearances at
weddings and around Thanksgiving
when pecans are still fresh. Pecan grow-ers
in Texas have been sharing a tassie
recipe since the ’70s, says Anne Byrn,
author of “American Cookie.” They also
found their way into the screenplay for
“Steel Magnolias” when Clairee served
them to the ladies at the beauty parlor.
It was, however, cookbook author and
Southern fare chef Nathalie Dupree
who made the tassie quite famous. The
recipe below has been adapted from
Dupree’s original recipe.
Peanut Butter
Cookies
GEORGE WASHINGTON
CARVER (1864-1943),
an African-American educa-tor,
botanist and scientist
from Alabama’s Tuskegee
Institute, started promoting
the peanut as a replacement
for the South’s cotton crop,
which had been destroyed by boll wee-vils.
He went on to develop hundreds
of uses for peanuts and published
three recipes for peanut cookies using
crushed peanuts in his 1916 Research
Bulletin called “How to Grow the
Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it
for Human Consumption.”
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Pecan Tassies