With a mixer, beat eggs, sugar, syrup, vanilla and butter together. Stir in 1/2 C broken pecan pieces. Pour into the pie shell. Arrange 1/2 C pecan halves on top of the mixture in an artful pattern. Bake at 350 for a little over an hour or until mixture is set and top is browned.
Fills one deep dish shell or two store-bought regular shells.
Notes:
This is the recipe I always use. It's from "Stir Ups", a cookbook from the Enid, OK, Junior League
If using two regular shells instead of the deep dish shell, reduce the baking time to less than 45 minutes.