Like so many nuts, whether culinary nuts or true nuts, pecans can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes. Pecans themselves are culinary nuts, not true nuts, as the fruit is a drupe, or a fruit with a single stone or pit that is surrounded by a husk.
The pecan tree is native to Mexico and the United States, and the nut is a common ingredient in dishes from the Southern US.
The pecan cookie, or biscuit in other countries, is a small baked treat, usually flat, made from eggs, flour, sugar and a type of fat, whether butter or cooking oil, with other ingredients perhaps mixed in. In the pecan cookie, the other ingredients are, naturally, pecans, which are a good source of various nutrients, and have a buttery taste.
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