Pies, cakes, cookies, candy, cobblers, and other sweet treats are made annually to welcome the month long festivities. Traditional fare abounds. And the atmosphere is permeated with the scents and aroma's of Holiday baking.
This tradition is our way of making special memories each year, and helps keep everlasting, the joy and wonder of our beloved Holidays.
Thanksgiving and Christmas, for those who celebrate, bring to the table the best of every one's culinary skills. It's when we pull out all the stops, and tackle laborious hours of making dough and batter and, checking to see if we have all the right types of pans, and ingredients we need. Electric mixer's are dug out from the back shelf, and for a short time, if you can think back to childhood, ...there is nary a care in the world.
Pumpkin Pies are synonymous with Thanksgiving. And ... there are a thousand different ways to make it, but in the end, most recipes, share the same, basic traditional ingredients.
It is the perfect treat to have on hand when friends stop by to visit. This is NOT, a difficult pie to make, and well worth the little bit of effort it takes. Everything gets thrown into a bowl, mixed and poured into the pie shell. Yet... everyone will wonder where you find the time to bake like your grandmother did. *LOL
Prep time: 10 min. Cook time: 50 min. Servings: about 8
This recipe makes 2 pies
Ingredients:
1/12 cups Sugar.
4 eggs.
1/4 tsp. nutmeg.
2 tsp. cinnamon.
1 tsp. ginger.
1/2 tsp. cloves.
1 tsp. salt
11/2 cup evaporated milk.
1 can 100% pure pumpkin.
2 - 9" pie crusts
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In small bowl, mix sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt.
- In larger bowl, with electric mixer, beat the eggs.
- Stir in pumpkin into eggs.
- Now, slowly add the sugar mixture, and mix with electric mixer, until blended well.
- Pour mixture into pie plate.
- Reduce oven temp. to 350 degrees.
- Place pie onto pie pan, to catch any spillovers
- Bake for 45-50 min. until a toothpick placed in the center of the pie, comes out clean.
- (Increase cooking time in 5 min intervals if needed. Just be careful, not to burn the crust.)
- Allow to cool and set, before serving.
Now Enjoy!
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