PRALINE ICE CREAM PIE

This is a recipe I got from Jello-O Pudding back in the 1970s.

2 tablespoons light brown sugar

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

1/3 cup chopped nuts

1 lightly baked 9-inch pie shell

1 1/2 cups cold milk

1 cup (1/2 pt) vanilla ice cream, softened

1 pkg (6-serving) Jell-O Instant pudding-butter pecan flavor

• Combine brown sugar, butter, and nuts in saucepan.  Heat until butter is melted.  Pour into pie shell and bake at 450 degrees for 5 minutes.  Cool.
• Thoroughly blend milk and ice cream in bowl.  Add pudding mix.  Beat slowly with rotary beater or at lowest speed of electric mixer until blended, about 1 minute.  Pour immediately into pie shell.  Chill until set, about 3 hours.  Garnish with whipped topping and additional chopped nuts, if desired.

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