Pecan Pie

As well as the cheesecake, I decided to make this pecan pie for the church lunch. I had heard that it was good, so thought I would give it a try. It should be noted that the ingredients for this are not cheap. I had not realised how expensive maple syrup is. I only bought one bottle as I presumed that would be enough. It turned out to be 20ml short, (you need 200ml, my bottle only had 180ml)  but I was quite glad that I did not know this at the time as buying two bottles would have made it extremely expensive!
I made the pastry and left it to chill. I rolled it out on my flexible mat, so was able to flip it into the flan dish. It did need a bit of patching, but turned out ok. Once I had baked the case blind I noticed that there were a couple of cracks in the side. As the mixture that goes in is quite runny, I thought I had better patch the gaps up. Thankfully I had some bits of uncooked pastry left over, so I used that.
As I type this, the pie is in the oven baking....
.....Unfortunately I didn't patch it well enough and the mixture leaked through the bottom of my loose bottomed flan dish ! Arghhhhhh. As it cooled it stuck fast to the tin and I then had a struggle to get it off, as you can see. As I do not have time, or frankly the inclination to bake something else now, this will have to do for the church lunch tomorrow. Sorry everyone! At least it's meant that I have been able to test it first! It tastes great, but presentation leaves much to be desired.