For a little heat, add 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper to the sugar mixture.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 egg white
3 cups pecan halves
2. Mix brown sugar, flour and salt in a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, beat egg white until foamy; slowly beat in sugar mixture. Fold in pecans. Transfer pecans to a parchment-lined baking pan. Spread in a single layer. Bake about 1½ hours. Cool completely. Break pecans apart. Makes 3 cups.
Recipe courtesy of Dancing Dear Lodge, Townsend, Tenn., "Sweet Home Tennessee," Nov. 2009.





