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Pumpkin pie

Ingredients

  • 3 cups pumpkin
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 3/4 tsp clove
  • 1/2 tsp mace
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tbsp ginger
  • 3 cups evaporated milk and cream (use tall can of evaporated milk, add cream or milk to make up the 3 cups)

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees

 

Mix together above ingredients. Pour into prepared pie crust. Bake for 12 minutes at 425 degrees. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake for about an hour, check to make sure the center is well set.

History

Grandmother Ilha Agler handed this recipe down to Mitzi, always delicious and always easy. She would make a mince meat pie for the grown ups and a pumpkin pie for the kids, but the pumpkin version would disappear long before the mince meat version.