Pecan Tartlets #1

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup margarine or 1 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 slightly beaten eggs
• 1 cup pecans (halves or broken)

Recipe

• 1 for pastry:.
• 2 mix ingredients together with hands.
• 3 refrigerate to chill.
• 4 pinch balls about the size a small walnut, and form dough to fit in mini muffin pans.
• 5 for syrup:.
• 6 place the sugar, corn syrup, and butter in saucepan on medium heat.
• 7 heat together, stirring, only until butter and sugar is melted.
• 8 remove from heat, and pour slowly over slightly beaten eggs beating all the while, add vanilla and stir until well blended.
• 9 to assemble:.
• 10 put about 1/2 teaspoon of fairly finely chopped pecans into pastries.
• 11 cover with about 1 tablespoon of syrup, or until cups are about three fourths full.
• 12 bake at 350 degrees f. for 20 to 25 mins., or until filling is set.
• 13 cool slightly in pans, and then remove to wire racks to cool.