Simmie's Pecan Pie

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons butter melted
• 1 cup plus dark
• 3 large eggs 
• 1.5 cups pecans chopped
• 1  unbaked pastry shell 9-inch
• 0.1 teaspoon salt 
• 0.8 cup sugar 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Equipment

• baking sheet
• oven
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Stir together eggs and sugar until blended. Stir in corn syrup and next 3 ingredients. Stir in chopped pecans.
2. Pour mixture into pastry shell.
3. Place pie on a baking sheet.
4. Bake at 400 on lower oven rack for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325, and bake 40 to 45 minutes, shielding with aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning, if necessary.