Recipes/Pumpkin pie
A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
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Ingredients
8-inch:
- pastry for 8-inch pie
- 1 egg
- 1.25 cups cooked pumpkin
- 0.66 cups sugar
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.75 teaspoon cinnamon
- 0.25 teaspoon ginger
- 0.125 teaspoon cloves
- 1.25 cups evaporated milk, coconut milk, or light cream
9-inch:
- pastry for 9-inch pie
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups cooked pumpkin (1lb can)
- 0.75 cups sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 0.5 teaspoon ginger
- 0.25 teaspoon cloves
- 1.66 cups evaporated milk, coconut milk, or light cream
10-inch:
- pastry for 10-inch pie
- 3 eggs
- 2.75 cups cooked pumpkin
- 1 cup sugar
- 0.75 teaspoon salt
- 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon
- 0.75 teaspoon ginger
- 0.5 teaspoon cloves
- 2.25 cups evaporated milk, coconut milk, or light cream
Note: If using rice dream as substitute for milk, use half the amount.
Directions
Heat oven to 425F. Prepare pastry.
Beat eggs slightly; beat in remaining ingredients. Pour into pastry-lined pie pan. Bake 15 minutes.
Reduce oven temperature to 350F. Bake 8-inch 35 minutes longer; 9-inch 45 minutes longer; 10-inch 55 minutes longer, or until knife inserted into centre comes out clean.
Cool and douse in many colours of whipped cream.