Pecan And Date Pie (Mexican) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

18 maria cookies or 18 vanilla wafers
1/4 cup melted butter or 1/4 cup melted margarine
milk, as needed
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup chopped dates
5 eggs
10 ounces sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Grind the cookies to fine crumbs
Combine cookies crumbs with the melted butter.
add a little milk to bind to cookies and butter.
With the cookie mixture cover the bottom and side of a 9\" pie pan or 8\" springform pan.
Place the chopped dates and pecans on the side and the bottom of the pan.
In a blender, blend together eggs, vanilla and sweetened milk. Blend about 2 minutes.
Pour egg and milk mixture over the pie.
Bake pie in a preheated 325 degree oven.
Approximately 40 minutes.
Allow to cool in the oven for 30 minutes after turing the oven off.