Mom's southern pecan pie

Yield: 10 Servings

Ingredients:

1 Unbaked pie shell
1 c Fruit sweetener
1 tb Cornmeal
1/3 c Unsweetened applesauce or --applebutter
3 tb Water
2 tb Cornstarch
3 Eggs
2 ts Vanilla extract
2 tb Very strong coffee or -espresso (prepared - not -grounds)
24 Pecan halves

Instructions:

Prepare pastry and place in 9" pie pan. In large bowl combine fruit sweetener cornmeal and applesauce/butter. Beat with electric mixer. In small bowl blend water and cornstarch until smooth. Add to fruit sweetner nixture and blend. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla and coffee. Pour mixture into pie shell. Decorate top with pecan halves. Bake 30 to 40 minutes - or until custard is set - at 375 degrees. Cool slightly before cutting. One serving is = to: 1 bread 1 fruit 2 fat exchanges. 211 cal 9g fat 28g carb 69mg sod 3g protein 82mg chol This recipe was posted by Sherry Eckert on *P - ID#GDDF80A and she got it from SWEET INSPIRATIONS SUGAR FREE DESSERT COOKBOOK. To make fruit sweetner - cook four cups of fruit juice until it is reduced to one cup. If you like it sweeter add Sweet One. OR if a recipe calls for 1/2 cup fruit sweetner use 1/2 cup frozen fruit juice plus half as much (1/4 cup) granulated fructose. ~ Sherry adds Sweet One instead to desired sweetness. If 2/3 cup is called for use 2/3 cup concentrate plus 1/3 cup granulated fructose. Commercial fruit sweeteners are available at health food stores. Good juices to use are apple orange pineapple pineapple- orange and grape. Submitted By LIR119@DELPHI.COM On SUN 21 JAN 1996 083110 -0500 (EST)