Pecan Day is a food holiday celebrated each year on April 14. Pecans are a good source of protein and unsaturated fats. Like walnuts. There are many ways people can show their love for pecans – like grabbing a handful to munch on, adding them to salads, making a delightful pecan pie, eating pecan crusted fish for dinner or having pecan ice cream.
Pecan Day Pecan day is a remembrance of the plating on a pecan tree by George Washington at the Mount Vernon estate March 25th 1775. The pecan tree sapling was gifted to him by Thomas Jefferson, who had planted a few pecan trees from the southern US at Monticello, VA. The pecan, native to southern North America, is sometimes called “America’s own nut.”
Enjoy the following tried and true recipes.
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