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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Boompa's Spiced Roasted Pecans

Our three year old great-grandson calls my husband Boompa....as in "Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation", a 1960's movie starring Jimmy Stewart.  Last year Booma made these pecans, and we sent a batch in the Christmas box to our newest grandson ( he married our granddaughter), a Navy Corpsman, who was in the middle east.  Gene called us tonight and asked a favor...would we send some of these to a Marine buddy of his who has just deployed to that region?  A resounding yes!  I got the recipe out to make these tomorrow, so thought I would post it.  When you make ayour Christmas goodies, please consider sending a box to our military.  They are so far away for home, in dangerous circumstances, and anything from home is appreciated.   They always share their homemade goodies with their comrades.

Ingredients:
1 egg white
1 TBS water
½ C. sugar
1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. salt
2 ¼ C pecan halves

Instructions:
Combine egg white and water in bowl; beat until fluffy.  Fold in pecans and coat evenly.  Combine dry ingredients in bowl; dump in pecans and stir until well coated.  Spread nuts in lightly greased rimmed baking sheet; bake in oven preheated to 225* until toasted and fragrant, about 1 hour.  Stir pecans about every 15 minutes.  Cool in pan, store in airtight container.  

4 comments:

  1. pecans in their raw state are okay, but when they're roasted (with cinnamon, no less!), they become amazing. three cheers for boompa! :)

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  2. Thanks, Grace. When I went to the POD on Friday to get a box, they told me the deadline for getting a package to the middle east for Christmas was yesterday. Boompa and I were in the kitchen until 1 AM, but yesterday we mailed 8 pounds of these pecans, cookies and candy to the young man. Merry Christmas!

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  3. These sound delicious, Pat! How nice that you & Boompa worked so hard to get the goodies in the mail. I know they will be much appreciated.

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  4. I'm sure they will be appreciated. A Marine who just got home told me when you are deployed over there, you feel like everyone has forgotten about you.

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