Graham Cracker Crisp

My grandmother's 91st birthday was last month, and unfortunately I couldn't celebrate with her and the rest of the family since we live over 1000 miles away from her. However what I COULD do was experience a little bit of her and send her a little of myself by making a recipe of hers then mailing her the resulting goodies. For as long as I can remember my grandmother has made these graham cracker crisps for almost every get-together or just to have around the house.

I had never made this simple recipe before, and, as is my usual habit, I changed the recipe a little bit. Of course there is nothing wrong with the original recipe, but I substituted a couple of ingredients for items I had on hand. I also cut the recipe down by half because I only had one sleeve of graham crackers and no butter. To make matters even more complicated, I only had about 1/4 cup margarine...aaand peanuts instead of pecans. So I guess you could say I botched the recipe. Fortunately it's hard to make graham crackers, margarine, sugar, and peanuts taste bad, and I was pleased when Grandmama wrote back saying my "version" of the recipe tasted great!

Graham Cracker Crisp
Ingredients
graham crackers
pecans, cut up
1 stick butter
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup white sugar

Instructions
1. Line up graham crackers on a cookie sheet touching each other. Sprinkle each with pecans.

2. Cook butter, margarine, and sugar mixture in a small saucepan until bubbly. Cook 3 minutes and pour over crackers and pecans.

3. Bake in oven for 15 minutes at 300°. Transfer grahams to wax paper or wire rack to cool.

If I remember correctly, when you use the right ingredients and proportions for this recipe, the outside turns hard and more candy-like than cracker-like as mine did. As I mentioned before, it's hard to truly mess up these ingredients, so if you change the recipe like I did, they'll probably still turn out to be a nommy treat!