Jackie,
I thought that 'custard' sounded off also, but figured that Helen knew more about cooking than I do, so I yielded to her on that one. But you're right. I checked Onelook and custard was defined as having ingredients of eggs and milk.
So what is it that pecan pie has filling it other than pecans? Well, filling! Ha!
Wonder what a filling of basically eggs and sugar--or eggs, corn syrup and sugar--could be called additionally? We have discussed meringue here--whipped egg whites and sugar--and said there wasn't a good etymological breakdown of the word meringue. Meringue was just meringue.
