Pecan And Date Pie (mexican)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 18 maria cookies or 18 vanilla wafers
• 1/4 cup melted butter or 1/4 cup melted margarine
• milk, as needed
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup chopped dates
• 5 eggs
• 10 ounces sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 grind the cookies to fine crumbs
• 2 combine cookies crumbs with the melted butter.
• 3 add a little milk to bind to cookies and butter.
• 4 with the cookie mixture cover the bottom and side of a 9" pie pan or 8" springform pan.
• 5 place the chopped dates and pecans on the side and the bottom of the pan.
• 6 in a blender, blend together eggs, vanilla and sweetened milk. blend about 2 minutes.
• 7 pour egg and milk mixture over the pie.
• 8 bake pie in a preheated 325 degree oven.
• 9 approximately 40 minutes.
• 10 allow to cool in the oven for 30 minutes after turing the oven off.