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As the day of her baby shower approached, Walter Mitchell&rsquo;s granddaughter Melody Tonart had one request.
				All she wanted was three of PopPops&rsquo; homemade pecan pies.
				Yum.
				After the shower, Mitchell mentioned he&rsquo;d be happy to take home any leftover pie.
				But every crumb was gone.
				That&rsquo;s probably not much of a surprise to the family members who expect to indulge in Mitchell&rsquo;s pecan pie at every holiday, and it&rsquo;s probably not a surprise to any new residents of Bear Creek Village, where Mitchell is the mayor. In recent years he&rsquo;s welcomed newcomers to the borough with a pecan pie, and if there&rsquo;s anyone he missed when they moved in, Mitchell says to just let him know.
				&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bake a pie for anyone,&rdquo; Mitchell said, remembering how he learned from watching his mother, the late Margaret Mitchell, &ldquo;make a pie or two for every high feast day &mdash; Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter&rdquo; and knew that her mother had baked it before her.
				&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how many generations it goes back,&rdquo; he said, noting he&rsquo;s been happy to teach his granddaughter Emma Tonart the ins and outs of pecan pie &mdash; and she now has the recipe memorized. Younger granddaughters Katie and Hailey Gish have pitched in with pie baking, too, and his son David, who &ldquo;grills a mean rib eye&rdquo; might round out a meal with that meat plus some &ldquo;exotic cheeses and interesting hors d&rsquo;oeuvres&rdquo; as well as, of course, pecan pie.
				&ldquo;Everyone asks for a slice (or two) at family dinners, including Marlena and Devan Raniello, the two oldest grandchildren,&rdquo; Mitchell wrote in an email, noting that his wife Connie rhetorically asks &ldquo;Does it have sugar (3 types) and butter? Then I&rsquo;m a fan!&rdquo;
				His brothers Coray, from Forty Fort, and Guthrie, from Dallas, &ldquo;grew up on our mom&rsquo;s product,&rdquo; Mitchell added. &ldquo;So if I pass their muster, all is right in the world.&rdquo;
				Without further ado, here is the recipe for people-pleasing Pecan Pie, courtesy of Bear Creek Village Mayor Walter Mitchell, who is well known beyond the borders of the borough as the founder of Mitchell Financial Group and as a veteran of many community theater productions.
				If you are going to bake the pie at home, he stresses you should use a 9-inch pie crust, because the filling has been known to overflow from an 8-inch crust.
				 Mayor&rsquo;s Pecan Pie
				Ingredients:
				1/2 cup brown sugar
				3/4 cup white sugar
				1/2 cup corn syrup
				1/2 cup light cream
				1 cup chopped pecans
				1/2 tsp vanilla
				1/4 tsp salt
				3 eggs
				1/2 cup butter = one stick
				Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook all the ingredients in a saucepan on a low-to-medium setting. Start w/the butter, and add all the other ingredients except the eggs after the butter has melted.
				While it&rsquo;s acceptable to crack the eggs into the mix, I&rsquo;ve had better luck mixing the eggs in a small bowl first. It&rsquo;s important to keep the saucepan ingredients on a low setting before adding the eggs, which tend to solidify at a higher temperature.
				Pour mix into an unbaked 9-inch pie shell. Bake for 50 minutes. Remove and decorate with whole pecans (cross for Easter, initials of recipients, etc.). Bake for another 15 minutes. Let cool for several hours at room temperature, then ENJOY!

Mayor’s Pecan Pie has become a holiday favorite