Is Your Pumpkin Pie Made from the Right Part of the Pumpkin?

[Ivan Seeking]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[turbo]

I have GOT to carve one of those for next Halloween!

 

[Kronos5253]

Hahahahah that's great! Awesome pic :D

 

[hypatia]

Ahahah love it. Yummy love my pumpkin pie too!

 

[Redbelly98]

Great one Ivan

 

[Moonbear]

But, hey, wait, that's the crappy part of the pumpkin you wouldn't want to make pie from!

 

[turbo]

But, hey, wait, that's the crappy part of the pumpkin you wouldn't want to make pie from!

Pun'kin guts! No pie there!Oh, no! Mr.Bill!

 

[gravenewworld]

Funny pic, although those are the wrong type of pumpkins to make a pie from.


You want to use pumpkins like these (cheese pumpkins):

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I make pumpkin pie from real pumpkins every year here is the recipe:

-Cut pumpkin up into wedges. Steam in pot until tender and flesh can be easily scraped from the skin.

-Take scraped pumpkin and blend until you have a smooth puree. Blot puree with coffee filters to remove as much water as possible

-Mix 3/4 C sugar (could use 1/2 C if you like less sweet pumpkin pie which i usually do), 1tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp salt together

-Take 2 C pumpkin puree and blend with 2 eggs, putting in eggs 1 at a time. Add in sugar mixture

-Add in 1 C heavy cream or 1/2 and 1/2.



Add mix to pie crust. Cook in preheated over at 425 for 15 minutes. Reduce temp to 350 and cook for 40-50 minutes until a knife inserted into center of pie comes out cleanly.




Very easy. You can add cloves, but I usually never do because I don't like them. All ingredients are real, nothing comes from a can. Libby's pumpkin pretty much dominated all pumpkin pies and they are owned by the same company that makes evaporated milk which is why it is semi-difficult to find a recipe that does NOT use nasty things like evaporated milk.



here's how my pie turned out, i made the crust from scratch too:http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/51506d0840.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

But, hey, wait, that's the crappy part of the pumpkin you wouldn't want to make pie from!

Okay.

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