Pecan Sauce

Name: Pecan Sauce
Yield: Yield: about 2½ Cups.
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ¼ cup sugar; 2 tablespoons water; ¼ pound butter, at room temperature; 1 cup whole or broken pecan halves (about ¼ pound); ¾ cup heavy cream

Preparation info

Yield: about
2½ Cups
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

About

Ingredients

1 cup whole or broken pecan halves (about ¼ pound)
¼ pound butter,

Americas
United States
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put the pecan meats in the container of a food processor or electric blender. Blend as fine as possible.
Add the butter and blend thoroughly.
Combine the sugar and water in a heavy saucepan. Bring to the boil and let cook, stirring often with a wire whisk, until the mixture turns amber. Continue cooking, stirring, until the sugar mixture becomes the colo